Tonight through a Barlow lens

[Mudsloth]

For the next hour or so if you follow the below link you can see the moon as my telescope tracks it across the sky. Happy viewing!


mudsloths4x4

[drivesafe]

Good stuff, thanks mate.

[ADMIRAL]

Like pippis on wet beach sand at night.

[dullbird]

Missed it

[dullbird]

Thats pretty cool....how big is your telescope? you can see the craters so clearly

[Mudsloth]

Thats pretty cool....how big is your telescope? you can see the craters so clearly

It's a celestron 4se, so it's up there as far as power is concerned. With the right eyepiece and you can see Jupiter clearly, Saturn's rings and Mars and it's moons. I'm using a usb camera that plugs into the eyepiece and doubles what you can see but if I plug it into the barlow lens you it's amazing, The moons nearly gone here now but if its clear tomorrow night I'll set it up again with the barlow lens.

[midal]

Mudsloth

A friend of mine has a good one (don't ask me power or type, I haven't got a clue)...he lives in the foothills of Perth and we could see the Saturn rings etc quite clearly. Almost a mystical experience and makes you really feel like a non entity in the grand scheme of things.

Last I heard from him he was buying a motor to fit on it so he could set it to follow the target across the night sky. It's amazing how quickly those things move out of alignment and we were fighting with keeping them in view. Some awsome sights to see. Everything was shown upside down with his, he received it as a present and is just getting into that sort of thing properly so no doubt in a very short time he will have a really good set-up.

Thanks for the opportunity.

[Mudsloth]

I'm going to switch it on again at around 9:30 but this time I'll attach the camera to a barlow lens which doubles the magnification so should give some very nice views of craters.

[brenno]

I'm going to switch it on again at around 9:30 but this time I'll attach the camera to a barlow lens which doubles the magnification so should give some very nice views of craters.

Thanks Moonsloth!!!

[350RRC]

Which state are you in M/sloth? UT?

I've got a mofo reflector in storage, no motordrive.

cheers, DL