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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CptTrips on August 11, 2009, 05:52:20 PM
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I think this is my best Jupiter so far. Not as good of a lot of the ones I've seen, but the best I've done.
From last night, 2:13am local.
(http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/Jupiter_08_11_09_7-13UT.jpg)
Clear Skies,
Wab
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Very nice, Wab. Thanks for sharing.
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Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot! :aok
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Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot! :aok
I did some checking into a telescope, but, right now not sure if my checkbook is big enough to do the right thing. I didnt want to buy a cheap one, as cheap always makes me buy 2.. the cheap one and the better one after the cheap one doesnt do what you want.
Second thing is wind. I live in windy western kansas, not sure how strong the mounts are against wind.
I am going to check around the neighboring towns and see if I can find someone who has a setup and see what I think before chucking out +5 grand.
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If you view in windy conditions from your own property, build an observatory. Lots of fairly simple plans on the internet for enclosures of all sizes and complexity.
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the dark spot on the darkest of the orange bands, is that the new spot created by the meteor that struck Jupiter?
ack-ack
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Even got some shading on Io..... Very nice amateur shot indeed Wab. :rock
ACK ACK...
That strike was in the high "north" and is offset from the Great Red Spot. By now, it's probably been swallowed up by the Jovian atmosphere....though we'll see. In Wab's pic it would be just on the eastern limb, facing about 90 degrees away.
(http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Jupiter-impact.jpg)
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Very awesome photo Wab!
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Breathtaking sir, simply breathtaking. If i had a system like that i would get no sleep. I could spend hours just staring out to the stars
Thanks for sharing
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Mbailey
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Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot! :aok
Here is my scope:
http://jasonirby.net/astronomy/Observatory/phase3/pages/DSC00725.htm (http://jasonirby.net/astronomy/Observatory/phase3/pages/DSC00725.htm)
I was using the blue 12" Meade SCT. Now understand Jupiter doesn't look like that at the eyepiece on my scope. Quite a bit of voodoo was done to extract that detail and color.
Wab
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I did some checking into a telescope, but, right now not sure if my checkbook is big enough to do the right thing. I didnt want to buy a cheap one, as cheap always makes me buy 2.. the cheap one and the better one after the cheap one doesnt do what you want.
Second thing is wind. I live in windy western kansas, not sure how strong the mounts are against wind.
I am going to check around the neighboring towns and see if I can find someone who has a setup and see what I think before chucking out +5 grand.
Thats a really good idea. See if you can find a local club that meets in your area. That is a great way to talk to a bunch of knowledgeable peoeple and look at different targets through a bunch of different kind of equipment.
Wab
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the dark spot on the darkest of the orange bands, is that the new spot created by the meteor that struck Jupiter?
ack-ack
Moray is correct. If I had waited another hour it would have been rotating into view. Its would have been below the great red spot (in my orientation) in the southern polar region about 2 hrs behind the great red spot.
I might see if I can catch that Thurs but not sure how much of it is left.
Wab
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This is from a few days ago and IIRC it's a span of about 1-2 weeks, so the spot's probably gone, or nearly gone by now.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3816365817_39a439a4ec_o.gif)
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I've always wanted to do that. Course, I've always been broke. Our neighbors gave us one once, course, it was broke, but we somehow (I don't know, SOMEHOW) managed to fix it, to where we could zoom in on the moon.
There was this guy in our neighborhood who made an observatory, with this very fancy telescope. With a dome and everything, when he died, he gave the dome to Southwestern University IIRC.
Very cool driving by it and seeing it. I would love to see what it looks like inside.
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LOL if a guy had Wabbit's scope and viewed it a lil more horizontally, you could prolly find a few "wednesday babes" :O :O
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Wabbit, you must know a lot about photography, need an advice;
I'm about to go in vacation, and i was looking for 2-3 days to buy a new camera: i never had an SLR, i read about it, i understand the difference, but i don't want to spend more than 600-700$, and this guys from BestBuy and 2 other stores are telling me to get a high end digital vs low end SLR at that price.
What do you think?
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Wabbit, you must know a lot about photography, need an advice;
I'm about to go in vacation, and i was looking for 2-3 days to buy a new camera: i never had an SLR, i read about it, i understand the difference, but i don't want to spend more than 600-700$, and this guys from BestBuy and 2 other stores are telling me to get a high end digital vs low end SLR at that price.
What do you think?
To be honest, my area of knowledge is pretty specialized to astrophotography. There are some other terrestrial photographers on this board who would be better to ask. Ripsnort and some other come to mind.
But if you want my quick, shoot from the hip advice... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012YA85A/ref=asc_df_B0012YA85A882504?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=googlecom09c9-20&linkCode=asn&creative=380341&creativeASIN=B0012YA85A (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0012YA85A/ref=asc_df_B0012YA85A882504?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=googlecom09c9-20&linkCode=asn&creative=380341&creativeASIN=B0012YA85A) Canon Rebel. Digital SLR. I prefer Canon over Nikon. Better selection of 3rd party lenses I think. YMMV.
Wab
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amazing picture, so what do you see when you view through the eyepiece with your own eye? More of the same but smaller and blurry or what? Thanks for posting, its awe inspiring.
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amazing picture, so what do you see when you view through the eyepiece with your own eye? More of the same but smaller and blurry or what? Thanks for posting, its awe inspiring.
Thanks. Hard to estimate from memory, but this is about what I remember it looking like at the eyepiece: (but imagine looking at it thru fluctuating seeing like looking through heat waves in the air...)
(http://jasonirby.net/bitbucket/eyejupiter.jpg)
(opps I used a different image so it doesn't include the Great Red Spot, but you get the idea.)
Clear Skies,
Wab
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the distortion in real time must give some sense of the distance involved but still...its hard to visualise quite how far away it is. Thanks for the reply, i'm sure we'd all love to see more!
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i'm sure we'd all love to see more!
+1 (Not to sound selfish) But I agree completely. Your photos are remarkable Wab.