Moon through my telescope..UPDATE...Added close up of Clavius crater in HD and Jupiter..page 1

Wow, neat, pulls right in there.

What sort of camera and what lens did you use for that?

Here was the waxing moon with Jupiter (and her moons too!) I captured last night with a Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 50/500. Still learning a lot, but fun as heck:

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That video was shot with a canon powershot sx50 hs

Thanks - wow, that is pretty amazing! Can't wait to see what happens when he mounts that to his telescope!

It wont be long before i have it mounted to the scope. I just need the weather to co-operate...yes this is OP

Cool OP. Hear ya on the weather. That *is* a deciding factor!

It looks like high moisture in the air tonight..they have a haze and its almost a full moon, tonight would have been a good test. I made a mount for my new camera, but the weather isnt looking good

DAM...i retract my last statement, walked out 10 minutes later and the sky is clearing up...maybe those plane trails cleared up the sky...it was really a lot of haze clouds, now they have all but dissipated, the moon is coming up on the horizon, not high enough to get good footage though, Its still too low on the horizon and that will give me a lot of atmospheric distortion in the video, i will have to wait about another 2 hours or so.

NO-GO on filming the moon tonight with the telescope...they have way too much moisture in the air...atmosperic conditions will look like garbage with the new camera. Sorry, but i will keep an eye out for better weather to film under

Awesome video. It looks like a vent to me? Like an exhaust port or something.

Last Edited by Commoner on 12/26/2012 09:23 PM

The base

AWESOME!!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!!!

Neat - love the train tooting by!
Can't wait till you pare your new camera up with your telescope.

WHOA nellie!!!!!!

I wonder if Trin's telescope can be pointed at these things?

Op, maybe PM trin the coordinates on the moon to him? I'd love to see these things up closer.

Great videos btw.

Remembered Star wars worm.

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hmmmmmmmmmm

great footage.see the shadow of the structure.it is big and don't look natural.
and 5 star

Im will be uploading 2 from my archived footage, maybe someone will find them interesting

thanks friend

heres one from my archives