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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The webcam experiment was a complete disaster. Lucky I didn’t spend too much money on it.
The webcam is attach to the scope using the prime focus method. That means the telescope acts as a titanic telephoto lens to the webcam. What I didn’t realize at first is that the size of the ccd determines the [...]
Getting yourself a telescope is just the start, there are mountains of accessories you can buy for the thing. For me, I need to fill in the gaps in my eye piece collection. So far I have the following eye pieces:
25mm (48x)
10mm (120x)
Those are pretty low power eye pieces. I would like to get another [...]