Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

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Entries Tagged ‘Jupiter’

Jupiter image with the Orion XT6

Oct.07, 2009 in Planets 2 Comments

Jupiter finally moved far enough for me to take a picture. To do that, I’m using the Phillips SPC900NC webcam I purchased a while back attached to my Orion XT6.  Here is the video of my first attempt.
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Visual observation on Jupiter

Sep.14, 2009 in Visual observation 3 Comments

Jupiter finally moved far enough for me to put my telescope on it at a reasonable time (about 11:30pm).  I was really looking forward to this because this is the first time I looked at Jupiter though the Orion XT6.  Not surprisingly, the view was a bit disappointing.  Jupiter is about the size of a [...]

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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. - Genesis 1:16

Unfortunately God also made chromatic aberration, angular magnification distortion, rectilinear distortion, wavelength transmission anomalies, vignetting, light loss, wavefront aberrations, coma, astigmatism, spherical aberrations, thermal issues, dirty mirrors, bad collimation, Earth rotation, humidity, bad focus, light pollution, wobbly mounts and back pains.

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