Kevin's Watch

Oh yeah! I forgot where you live! Sorry!

Do you have any pic's from your night sky? I'd love to see what its like there.

Balon wrote:On a side note, when is Halley supposed to swing by again?

In another sixty years (thereabouts). I missed it back in the '80s.

Balon wrote:Oh yeah! I forgot where you live! Sorry!

Do you have any pic's from your night sky? I'd love to see what its like there.

Uploading now.

*extreme jealousy*

I had a decent telescope for about five years. unfortunately due to living in a flat in the middle of town, it being a huge unwieldy ****, and me not driving, it never got used, so I sold it for a pittance, and ended up moving house 6 months later to a place with a (decently dark) garden I MISS MY TELESCOPE WANT ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit - my dream is to view orion nebula through proper astronomical one

Can you put up a observatory shed somewhere to keep it? An 8" is probably at the limit for easy portability for that type of telescope.

Stonemaybe wrote:Edit - my dream is to view orion nebula through proper astronomical one

I've done that, but the 4.5" mirror doesn't capture enough light to get the glorious colours. The one I will order tomorrow will.

How big a telescope do you need to view planets? And how much would one cost?

All I want is to see Mars.

Damelon wrote:Can you put up a observatory shed somewhere to keep it? An 8" is probably at the limit for easy portability for that type of telescope.

My father will build one.

Here is a picture I took using my digital camera (Looking at the galactic core). Note that not many stars are visible as the shutter speed was set to 30s. If I had it an telescope with a drive mount, you'd see more stars.

Not a thing, Lore.

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Balon wrote:How big a telescope do you need to view planets? And how much would one cost?

All I want is to see Mars.

You can view the planets with a telescope that has a mirror as small as 1" mirror. However, to get good detail start at 4.5". You're looking at 400 US$.

Balon wrote:Not a thing, Lore.

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Your doing it AGAIN!



That's a good sky! I need to get some cash to get a Telescope. *jealous*

Balon wrote:Your doing it AGAIN!



That's a good sky! I need to get some cash to get a Telescope. *jealous*

Doing what? Did you know that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia?

If you lived near me, I'd give you my 4.5" (though it doesn't have the tripod).

Mars is, unless it's in a close approach, a disappointing site. Even then it's not as good as Jupiter.

Jupiter, on the other hand, is great. Even over the course of a couple of hours you can notice changes, both on the face of the planet, and in the positions of the 4 main moons.

Damelon wrote:Mars is, unless it's in a close approach, a disappointing site. Even then it's not as good as Jupiter.

Jupiter, on the other hand, is great. Even over the course of a couple of hours you can notice changes, both on the face of the planet, and in the positions of the 4 main moons.

Really! Cool!

I wonder if I stacked a bunch of field glasses in front of each other I could see jupiter......

Damelon wrote:Mars is, unless it's in a close approach, a disappointing site. Even then it's not as good as Jupiter.

Jupiter, on the other hand, is great. Even over the course of a couple of hours you can notice changes, both on the face of the planet, and in the positions of the 4 main moons.

Mars is a bit disappointing. I had to watch it for at least 20mins before any detail could come out. As for Jupiter . . . great.

Balon wrote:I wonder if I stacked a bunch of field glasses in front of each other I could see jupiter......

I wonder what kind of telescope Galileo used. Nothing as fancy as these ones, surely.

Balon wrote:I wonder if I stacked a bunch of field glasses in front of each other I could see jupiter......

What will happen is that you'll lose resolution and there will be less light. You need a really good mirror to focus the light.

Loremaster wrote:

Balon wrote:Your doing it AGAIN!



That's a good sky! I need to get some cash to get a Telescope. *jealous*

Doing what? Did you know that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia?

If you lived near me, I'd give you my 4.5" (though it doesn't have the tripod).

I could always make a tripod, and I always WANTES to travel the world!

Balon wrote:Really! Cool!

I wonder if I stacked a bunch of field glasses in front of each other I could see jupiter......

If you have very good eyesight, I've read that you can occasionally see Jupiter's moons. You can see them, I should think, with a good pair of binoculars.