Moon & Saturn 2011-06-12

reply to post by Enkii


It's in the netherlands in a very light polution area, industry highways etc... but wonder above wonder i can get some good pictures.

reply to post by czygyny


A binoculair is also fantasic to see the stars Moon and satellites and Ufo's.

I recommed a 7x50 and when you look in it it's almost nightvision

The Star near Saturn is what Cohort say's Porrima, are you familiar with the program Stellarium?
It's a home real time planetarium with also sattelite tracking etc etc... it's free to use and very handy and it works even on very slow computers like mine

www.stellarium.org...

reply to post by Cohort


Thanks Cohort

reply to post by Illustronic


Thanks Illustronic Yeah i know what you mean i don't have that much time also, i have to make time for it in the very late hours

reply to post by karmajayne


Thanks karmajayne more will follow soon

reply to post by wlasikiewicz


Thanks wlasikiewicz

reply to post by scobro


Don't be jealous one day you have also a nice telescope

reply to post by Bosb33r


As a jazz critic might say, Nice.

reply to post by mugger


Thanks mugger

it's here also not the perfect weather, for some hours clear spots, and than you have to take your chance!

yes you can see saturn very well in a smaller telescope, and with a good eyepiece a lot better (baader hyperion 8mm)

reply to post by Thepreye


Thanks Thepreye

very nice video lad the pictures were amazing thanks for sharing pal..

super vid, its so interesting.
the wife liked how the craters were all round, i wondered why there were no skiddy craters a-la fake flight 93 crash.
did all the meteors to hit the moon hit head on?.
i'm sure theres a scientific reason for this, any one care to explain?

reply to post by Bosb33r


Awesome footage man!

What video camera did you use to record this? And how did you hook it up to your telescope?

Thanks buddy.

Originally posted by BobbyShaftoe
i'm sure theres a scientific reason for this, any one care to explain?

A simple analogy could be thought of observing a body striking a water surface, no matter what angle the body strikes the surface, the resulting ripples will be round emanating from the impact point.

The short answer is that the energy involved in an impact is so huge that when the impactor hits the ground, it explodes like a bomb, rather than just denting the surface like a rock thrown into mud. Explosions are generally symmetric, so the resulting crater from most impacts is circular. Only very very shallow impacts form elliptical craters, but they do exist!

Here is an example of an oblonged impact on Mars.

Here is a scaled down image of the Butterfly impact on Mars.

Beautiful capture. Never seen Saturn like that, amazing. Thank you.

Very cool! you usually see very close up shots of Saturn, I guess through more powerful telescopes or Hubble but what you've shared really gives me the sense of this amazing, beautiful body, just floating through the void....

It's very cool, thanks!

I HAVE to get a telescope now! Thank you so much for this.....great job. I hope you'll post more when you can!

Impressive, not sure how old you are, but you obviously you enjoy what you are doing and if my opinion holds any weight, hey continue on that path.

reply to post by Bosb33r


Thats very cool. Can you try using night vision / IR lense and see what you find on the moon. Hope you find UFObjects. Also, from the crop circle messages, you should also find some dark object (Milkhill crop circle 1st june 2011 object ).

reply to post by Bosb33r


I've been doing the same thing the past few nights with my telescope. I only have a 4mm & a 20mm eyepeice & no camera mount. Thanks for sharing this.