Astronomy

[ub3rman123]

Hmm, one quick question: Those are awesome pictures. I'm starting a space-type mod soon, and I need a new night sky. Can I incorporate parts of some into it? Most notably that excellent high-detail moon shot and the Orion nebula were just what I was looking for.

[Illiad86]

Yeah sure, no problem :smile:

[Illiad86]

We went up north over the 4th of July weekend and brought the scope up. Wow, was the sky dark. You could see the bands of the Milky Way and there were at least 10 times, if not more, stars in the sky compared to here. We didn't get too many pictures...wish we did...but it would have took awhile to get it aligned properly and my boyfriend's family wanted to look more in the eyepieces. Lol, he kept his uncle up until 4:30 in the morning to see Jupiter :tongue: Got to see some amazing things up there though. The picture we got earlier of some of those star clusters were 30-45 second exposure pictures. Up there, you could actually see that in the eyepiece! Gonna have to go up there again :smile:

 

We're spoiled now :tongue: Makes me wanna move to the middle of nowhere again haha. At least you don't have to go too far north to get dark skies here, his aunt's cabin is like 50 miles northwest of here :smile: If we went up further north, it gets better :biggrin: We're talking the Milky Way is so bright, you think the sun is rising :wink: and zodiacal light o m g lol that's only a hour or two away from here :biggrin:

 

A few of Jupiter again. The seeing wasn't too great because it was just rising:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_79331.png

got the red storm there :smile:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_73352stacked.png

 

and our best of the Moon yet, IMO

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/moon1-4stacked.png

 

Thanks for looking :smile:

[CommanderCrazy]

@above:

Anytime. Love seeing your shots.

[Nexus Set]

great shots as always :)

 

btw, can you spot the hidden mickey? :teehee:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/moon1-4stacked.png

[Keanumoreira]

It...it makes me want to cry. :sweat:

[Illiad86]

lol ya there he is :tongue:

 

Wonderful night last night, got some good pics of Jupiter :smile: We got some of the Whirlpool Galaxy too, but we haven't processed them yet. We were up for more than 24 hours lol...got home at 11:30 this morning and slept til 4 this afternoon. I'm all out of whack lol, have a horrible headache :sad: Come on Aleve kick in lol

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_85500.png

hehe 3 moons this time :smile:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_95443.png

This one just came out awesome...had to stay up to pretty much sunrise to get it like this :smile:

 

and a cool one of the moon as it was rising this morning...not too detailed but cool looking :biggrin:

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_91223.png

DUN DUN DUN DUN! lol

 

Just crazy how far the scope can see...Jupiter is 500 million miles away :biggrin: You can see Uranus too (no jokes now :tongue:)...but it's just a blue hazy ball...but that's almost a billion miles away :biggrin: And it's just amazing how you look into the past...light is so crazy lol

[Illiad86]

Finally a clear night last night :) Finally it hasn't been raining...we've had almost a foot of rain this month :( Rest of the week looks super too :) Made our first animation of Jupiter rotating :D Up all night lol...finally got home around 8 a.m..woke up around 4 p.m.

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/jupiter.gif

This is only a half an hour of it rotating. It takes 10 hours for it to do a complete rotation. In September it will be up earlier than it is now (comes up around midnight now...can't see it until 3 a.m. because of sound barrier and tree in backyard), so we'll be able to get half or maybe even a full rotation by then :) Took ages to figure out how to make a .gif in GIMP...but we did it :D

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/out_135326.jpg

just one of the single images that made the .gif :)

 

We're going out at 3 a.m. tonight to get some more of Jupiter :) Maybe some of the Moon too, it's full tonight :)

[ub3rman123]

Doesn't take long to notice that for some reason planets look exactly like little painted foam balls in a dark room. The resemblance is uncanny.

 

I smell a conspiracy among all the world's astronomers!

[Illiad86]

LMFAO ;)

 

You should see some of the pictures on this forum my boyfriend is on...amateurs get pictures of the planets that look better than Hubble's...it's crazy

 

Was a gorgeous sight in the eyepiece, very clear and stable, 5 moons :)