Saturn through a 15mm eye piece of a telescope on 3/6/2009 using a Celestron C10-NGT
First day of having my new Telescope. 10″ Reflector on a badly aligned equatorial mount. and cheap $200 Nikon cool pix point a shoot camera on movie mode.
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i have never seen …
i have never seen the rings like that! thnx man
You can see the …
You can see the rings of Saturn in a 2.5 inch scope. It looks about like this video. What you can see depends on the power of the eyepiece, and how far Saturn is from earth. Right now Saturn is almost on the other side of the sun. It is following the sun as it goes down in the western evening sky, so it is near it’s maximum distance for the earth. About 6 months from now we will be lining up with Saturn on the other side of the sun and smaller scopes will see it well again.
So, it seems that a …
So, it seems that a 10 inch aperture is as small as you can get and still be able to see Saturn’s rings.
Nice job making.
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Nice job making.
Saturn is just over 800 times the size of the Earth by volume.
I still think this …
I still think this is amazing despite looking at the othe youtube vids. Nice One