My First Pictures of Another World!!! (Jupiter & Our Moon)

[HURAKAN]

I have a relatively cheap telescope that I can use to see as far as Saturn and today I saw Jupiter to my SW and decided to take a look. After watching the planet a few times it came to my mind. If my eyes can see the planet, then the lens of my relatively cheap camara can see it and I can take pictures!! I was amazed when I took the first picture and saw that when I did a close up Jupiter and three of the satellites look better than by just looking through the telescope.

Tomorrow I will have more, including the Moon.

Enjoy and please comment!!

Sandy


There is Jupiter in the middle of the picture as you see it with the naked eye.


My telescope.




Jupiter and three of its satellites.












I left the best for the end!

[Ptarmigan]

Nice photographs of Jupiter. I am into astronomy too.

[JonathanBelles]

WOW! I wish I had a telescope like that.

[fasterdisaster]

Awesome telescope and pictures! I agree with Fact, I wish I had one like that

P.S. I can see two satellites/moons, but where's the third?

[HURAKAN]

Awesome telescope and pictures! I agree with Fact, I wish I had one like that

P.S. I can see two satellites/moons, but where's the third?

Now the satellites (moons) are easier to see.

[JonathanBelles]

I love your pictures Hurakan!

[GulfBreezer]

WOW!!! SO beautiful!! What a Universe we have !!!

Thanks for sharing !!!

[StormScanWx]

These images are very cool. Thank you for sharing!!

[O Town]

Very awesome Sandy, hubby has been begging for a nice scope for a while now.
Thanks for sharing.

[jasons2k]

Those are awesome! Thanks!

[JonathanBelles]

How far can that scope go? Can you see pluto?

[HURAKAN]

How far can that scope go? Can you see pluto?

Not even the Hubble telescope can see Pluto clearly, much less mine being in Miami with the light pollution, pollution, atmosphere, and more. I can only see as far as Saturn. Tonight I was trying to see Jupiter again and take some pictures to the Moon but it's very cloudy. Lets see if tomorrow I have better luck.

[coriolis]

Nice Pics Hurakan. Seems that now you're hooked. Have you checked out the hubble space telescope site?

http://hubblesite.org/

[TexasStooge]

Awesome pics! Thanks for posting them!

[Category 5]

Cool stuff.

I used to have a telescope strong enough to see it in some detail. Not enough to see the spot though. I saw Uranus a few times one week too. *waits for dirty joke*

BTW, did you take the picks through the telescope?

[HURAKAN]

Jupiter:

[HURAKAN]

Moon:

[JonathanBelles]

Great Pictures. It seems like this full moon is making everything busy. Already a busy 2 days, now a busy 7 ahead of me. Seems to happen a lot around full moons.

[Aslkahuna]

Actually, one can SEE Pluto with a telescope currently as small as an 8 inch as it's current magnitude is 13.8 (at aphelion it will be much fainter) but all you will see is a point image. Back some years ago when Pluto and Charon were ungoing mutual events I caught Pluto during an occultation by Charon at about mag 15 with my 10 incher.

Steve

[RL3AO]

Great pictures.

Lets all hope for clear skys on December 1st. Jupiter, Venus, and the moon will be so close together that they will fit inside your thumb when held at arms length.