Just wondering. Im atleast am fond of everything science so ofc next to my chemistry lab and my physics stuff I got myself a telescope recently.

Anyone here like stargazing? Any "secret" tips for objects to look at?

I made that picture below

I have a meade 90mm refractor type telescope. I've rarely used it. I need to pick up some other lenses for it. I have a couple moon filters.

I need to look up if there's a way to use my iphone5s camera to snap a photo from up close to the eye piece on the lens.

There's been a few times where me and a friend were on each a tab of LSD, jupiter was really close, so I decided to get out the telescope. That aside from some of my other powerful life experiences, really shook me for some reason. To stare through this few foot rod that's able to capture light and put it into your eye, obtaining light from an object that's half a billion miles away.

And not to just capture it into a faint blur, but to actually see it clear enough to where you can distinguish all the different bands across its surface, also being able to see the light reflected off it's moons that orbit.

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Funny, I also have a Meade, model 4400 but of the 114mm margin. There's a few eyepieces for use, plate and some other basic telescope stuff. Starting to set it up now for later. Near the west side of the sky, slightly north at 45 degrees. Was also able to find the online manual jic. Learning how to properly use this scope for tonight may just be doable. You really could see something new everyday with these scopes. Should be lotsa stars out, too. Powerful changes in Virgo retrograde. Happy viewing!

There are many "universal" smarphone adapters for telescopes. Just make sure that its not the kind that only holds the smarphone so you can use the map on it. Just look on ebay for them.

I got a lens (12mm) where an Iphone camera goes in perfectly. Also you can just make one with some kind of modeling clay.
Or a 3D printer.

Pleiades and Hyades are awesome even under city light. Planets ofc.
On my first LSD trip I had clear skies and watched everything I could. (Sadly no telescope)
But the whole sky had a kind of flower maze background and I even had visuals like Lines between the stars just like on star maps. So I actually saw the zodiac signs just like they should be .

My 3x Barlow just arrived. But sadly skys are a bit cloudy with no planets in sight .
Cant wait for Jupiter/Saturn to turn up again. Im also limited by my window. But I got acces to the rooftop of a small skycraper(not really but there arent any buildings as big in my town. It has 15 stories)

This was my first shot of saturn. You can see the even the space between the rings. I was able to see 4 moons too.

Also it was still pretty small because I had no barlow. Its was like quarter of a finger nail when you extend your arm.

My telescope is 76/300 reflector Dobson by Celestron. Firstscope. I scored it for 35€ even though it sells at a way higher price. Almost 75€.

Its amazing how far even a small telescope can get you even though I got city light.

Awesome, just found a couple adapters. Thanks!

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Is that yours?

That's a beaut, what kind?

1000D, 200PDS, guided NEQ6 pro, guide scope (ST80), guide camera (SPC900)

image is made up of 49 x 600second subs

Make sure you dont electrocute yourself while trying to work on that scope
Massive setup though. You have luck with that awesome sky. Mine would probably just end up being a red image.
My friend wants to get a nice DSLR with adapter.

Pinwheel and Orion I think. Nice quality that you can even see the smaller part on the left to the orion nebula.

I got an old webcam that is about to be dismembered but sadly it has dead pixels.

Yeah pinwheel and orion spot on. It took me around 3 years to build up to that set up, started off with the 200 reflector on an eq4 and bit by bit added bits to it. It's so satisfying when you stack the images and it comes together.

Nice thread

I wish I had something to contribute, but I'm just beginning to learn about astronomy. My housemate is really into it so he teaches me quite a bit. Give me a couple of years and I'll get back here with more info haha

Id like to build up a setup like that one day Studio1one.

I had my eye on a couple Celestrons several years back but never went through with it; I think they were around $499-599usd. I couldn't imagine being able to pull a galaxy into focus like that.

Here's a pic of mine, nothing extravagant, but super fun nonetheless.

to be clear there is a massive difference in what you see through the eye piece and what you get from over 4 hours of exposures all stacked on top of each other and then digitally enhanced. To the naked eye messier objects are still just a grey smudge.

Ahh dang, really? Well, there shows how much I know about astronomy.

I suppose i'll have to read into the process of this if/when I get a nicer telescope.



Can't wait for the winter skies here..

But dont think everything is just a smudge through a telescope.
Its nowhere near Hubble quality but its still enough.
Just pointing a telescope at a random "dark" part of the sky will show you hundreds of stars.

Just look at collinder 399, Pleiades, Hyades and more. They all turn out great on even small telescopes.
And dont forget that seeing it through your own eyes is always better. No screen/camera can surpass even the worst telescope and your eyes.

And if you want to see more you could always "chemically" enhance your vision

Also there arent just stars and such. Humans but trash in the sky that looks awesome from earth.

I always hunt for rocket stages and satellites. Im using an App for my phone that shows most big satellites and then I point my telescope where they are gonna be and follow them. You can sometimes even see the shape in big magnification. Its hard to follow them but its still crazy to see something we put up there.

Ofc bigger satellites like the ISS or special satellites like the Iridium flares can be seen with eyes only and look like planes passing over you.

I got my new barlow lens. And Saturn was up.

Oh sorry I didn't see this and made another thread!

I just ordered some binoculars and am planning to start stargazing.

I was hoping to talk to someone about it or share tips. I'm looking forward to starting next week!

I ordered low magnification binoculars (7 x 35) with a wide field of view, because I heard it's easier to start that way. The lower magnification means hopefully the image won't shake too much, and they will be lightweight enough to handhold.

Apparently the stars look really beautiful when your binoculars have a very wide field of view so I got ones with that in mind.