Griffon and the deep sky objects - Griffs telescope thread

Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:31 pm by Griffon_26

Last night I got my scope out as it was a really clear and dry night (dew is not good for the optics) apart from light pollution (Sydney is like an extra sun), at least I live in the suburbs...anyway I finally got around to Polar Aligning it, so I can use the setting circles, I wish I was in America lol you have the Pole star to help you with, we have an empty space in between Crux and Achenar...

Anyway, then I finally started to look for DEEP SKY OBJECTS seriously (not just swing the scope around the sky) for the first time, previously I had been looking at planets and moons and such..

Anyway I looked at the Eta Carinae nebula..that was cool, but no colour like in Hubbles telescope pics

just a bright cloud of gas and dust, from a supernova I think. Then I looked at the Omega Centauri star cluster....that was amazing! So many little stars in a ball! And then I looked at NGC253, or the Silver Coin galaxy, now that was really cool, I never new you could see galaxies! Well yes I did but I didn't beleive them

And it wasn't just a point of light either, you could see the nucleus and the spiral arms like the milky way...
Half way through I heard a rustling in the bushes and found two Ring tailed possums playing there....that was cool but it wasn't a deep sky object!
Finally, when I came to resume, as I was peering in the door to my computer and its planetarium program, which was in red mode to save my eyes, my brother walked in, shut it down, and loaded up Medal of Honour....so seeing as my eyes were stuffed and I didn't have the planitarium to help me find stuff, I had to come in.
Although this is irrelevent that night I dreamt I was in WWII, but in nato outfits and fighting muslims.....wierd.

Anyway for those of you who like statistics I own a
6 inch (aperture, Esq, no "natural aperture" jokes) celestron newtonian reflector, with 20mm and 9mm eyepeices..

Can't wait till March so I can see M31 (andromeda galaxy)...you Norths have it till then..
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Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:36 pm by Warlord Bob

Kimk ought to enjoy this thread!

My grandfather has (and has had for years, since I was little) a, uh, big telescope (

) and he used to try to get me interested in things out there but it never caught on. He was always interested in planets and the moon and such, never deep sky objects. Anyhoo, sounds really cool!

Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:04 pm by Holliday

I have a ten inch Meade reflector. You won't see color in nebula. It takes a long exposure to soak up enough light to see any color. A really big scope (30 inches or more) you might start seeing color. Stars are another matter. I have seen stars so blue it took my breath away.

Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:39 pm by Orillion.

Sounds very cool, Griff

I kinda like space, with all the colors, and i can't stop of wondering if there is someone out there

By the way, i don't know much about space, but i make planets in Photoshop, does that count

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Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:13 pm by mustang

No problem with the size Orillion, just dont go using it as a sig.

Hey Griff, how much did your scope cost you? I really wanna get one but I know jack all about them, anybody got some good linkage?

Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:17 pm by Esquilax

I wish I had a telescope

. I guess I could "borrow" my uncle's...

Ok Griff, I won't make any bad jokes. Just remember, if I hadn't said it, someone else would have; ff probably

.

Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:02 pm by Wolf_Demon

can u teach me how to do that orillian

i dont even have a photoshop program

this is my world; it goes round and round and round

Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:26 pm by Warlord Bob

That might be a bit of a problem

Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:35 pm by Wolf_Demon

lol, just a small problem right?

this is my world; it goes round and round and round

Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:10 pm by Esquilax

Just download "Paint Shop Pro". That should do the job.

Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:42 pm by bevilr

FAirly recently around here there was a lunar eclise, a full one too and all these amuture bought out their telescopes form people to look though it was cool looking thought like a 12 inch or so.at the moon and later panets and starts and galaxies

If life gives you lemons use them to squirk lemon juice in people's eyes and cheat.

Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:49 pm by Chips

Am curious on:

A) How much it cost

How clear can you see the planets and so on?

I mean, really - is it just a lil ol speck in the sky (starlike), or is it a small image, or is it quite impressive? Anyway you could use a digital camera or something and take a pic for us all to have a butchers at??

Haven't even seen the planets up close yet, as the only thing we had was binocs when I was small

. Good thing was living in countryside - clear skies and no light polution was perfect. I can sympathise though - i now live in a large city, with enough light polution to - well, sometimes it looks like a "permanent sunset" in the sky

Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:30 am by Orillion.

Wolf: The best answear to Photoshop around, is as said, Paint Shop Pro. Not as advanced, but still very good. You can download the whole program for free... i think, as a start you may try Download.com

Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:16 am by kimk

orillion seems to have officially hijacked the thread.
i'm gonna recover it.

as bob said, i'm mighty interested in thsi thread. pity i don't have anything more than a pair of binoculars (for birds) to look at the stars. but where i live even if i had any type of telescope it'll take a miracle to see anything. there's always something blocking the sky. its clear from about 8-10 pm but then onwards the clouds come.. always.. weird.

anyhoo i envy you guys with telescopes alot.

when i start working a good sized telescope is the first thing i'm aiming for. btw, where do you buy telescopes? the good ones i mean. the net's out of the question for me cause i don't have any means to pay over the net.

Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:22 am by H.Q. Victor

Kimk, Scopes I found this and a couple other pages for those of us without telescopes.

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