Euro space station

I have one of the Lidl Bresser ones. The eyepieces are naff, but for the tripod and mount (you can use is in Alt-Az or EQ mode) are OK for getting into observing. I still managed to capture the transit of Mercury left and below centre) with mine using a heavier tripod & mount (and , of course, a proper solar filter - never look at the sun without one).

This is Jupiter taken with the Lidl scope and a £15 webcam. A bit out of focus:

Both those images are stacks of multiple images but aren't far off what you can see through a reasonable eyepiece.

So not a world class scope, but not useless either.

Neil

To me it looks like the first picture was pointed at a light bulb and the second looks like the star I paid a fella on the Interwebnet £100 to be named Gullibillius after me

Edited By Dod on 21/12/2016 22:56:12

You were definitely had good and proper Dod. That star is a mere planet.

Cheers,

Dave

Dave - don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Dod gulliblle and bilious - not

How true that is Dod! I get caught out nearly every time I open my Browser!

Merry Christmas,

Dave

I used to go to Sweden to work in the early part of the year. A place called Arjeplog in Sweden. They prepare a lake there for winter testing of various aspects of vehicles on ice. In my case it was mostly artics and trailers often fully laden so they put us at the shallow end just in case.

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Initially 'till some one nearly hit a moose the trip involved a lot of driving well way from the towns. Some one said what's that in the sky. I said the northern lights so 2 cars full stopped and everybody took a look and saw exactly the same thing. No colour at all even after allowing our eyes to adapt to the dark. It was pitch black. Fluke really not even a moon. They were very active too. So I go along with what has been mentioned on the telly very very occasionally in the past - the colours are down to the camera. These days they tend to omit mentioning that.

Our eyes shift to black and white vision in low light conditions so more sensitivity is needed. Binoculars might help but would miss the scope - they go all the way across the sky and flicker about.

Neil probably knows how much any moon messes up astronomical observing. It doesn't take much light to reduce the contrast.

The so called super moon is also a bit misleading. Show it using a longer focal length or do some pp in photoshop.

A sailor once told me the that the best place to see the night sky is in the middle of an ocean. A public obesrvatory had been built not far from where he lived as it was always pretty dark. He reckoned that the middle of the sea was a lot better.

John

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That's why all cats are grey in the night

When did Europe buy out the non-European stakeholders in The International Space Station and rename it The European Space Station?

I bet they're really thrilling to listen to, never mind Allan holdsworth, i'm going to listen to some fuzzy jupiter static instead. So long sanity!

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 03/01/2017 22:28:44