OBSERVING THE PLANETS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2022
- This is Chapter 12 of Tsula's Complete Video Guide to Becoming an Amateur Astronomer and it's all about observing the planets, which ones can you see naked eye, with binoculars, and with telescopes and what is the best way to see them. I will show you some video of the planets I made while observing them with various telescopes and help you maximize your viewing pleasure while observing the planets.
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Very informative video Tsula. Great job. Gotta run as I’m going to try and view Saturn tonight from my suburban Chicago home backyard. Wish me luck.
Thank you, Ed. Good luck! Oh my god, I almost fainted when I saw Saturn in my 12" Meade SCT with a 3mm Televue Delite. I hope you have clear skies and get good looks at this amazing planet.
Very informative. Thank you.
I always enjoy your videos, so interesting. I enjoyed imagIng Saturn at opposition this year. In the uk we had a high pressure weather front which helped with the seeing. I even made a tiktok video that got over 3500 views.
Thank you. Glad you got good seeing and a successful Tiktok video!
Thank you so much for your tips and info!
I'm more of a terrestial spotting scope kind of guy (easy to carry and set up anywhere), who also happens to enjoy casual astronomy!
You're welcome. You can see a lot with a spotting scope. It's probably not the best for planets because you want big aperture for planets but for some of the bright deep sky objects a little refractor or spotting scope is ideal. I just traveled to a dark sky site and only took my little 80mm refractor and a photo tripod and I was very happy with all the things I could see. It's a little hard to find things with a spotting scope but they are great for ease of use and portability.
@@tsulasbigadventures Thank you for your kind answer 😊.
You are right: not easy to find things, I am trying to navigate through the night sky without a gps "finder".
These things I have found and seen: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pleiades, Andromeda galaxy, the Orion nebula and of course the moon.
I did see some faint object very close to the milky way but have no idea what it was.
Do you have some basic tips how to find something new and cool? Like if I see some known star or something and draw a "line" from there?
It's so much fun to discover something new for the first time 🌌 🌠 😊
I have to say that I own quite a few scopes! For example I have 3 objective lenses from Swarovski! 85 mm, 95 mm and the 115 mm!
All my money went to that 😅.
But I don't care because I love my hobby!
Watching birds, boats, ships, animals, people.. whatever I can see. I feel like superman 😄.
And then when the sun sets I point the scope to the beautiful night sky!
@@mrmaxaxl Max: I used to own a Swarovski 77mm spotting scope that I loved. I made a video about the constellations in which I explain things you can see in each of the constellations I covered: th-cam.com/video/jke9bz36imQ/w-d-xo.html
Anything suitable for binoculars or a small telescope would be suitable for your spotting scope. Right now is a good time to check out the three star clusters in Auriga and the star cluster just below Sirius in Canis Major. There is a very pretty star cluster just above the left foot of Castor in Gemini. If you can find Andromeda then you should be able to also find the galaxy M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. If you can find that red star near Andromeda Galaxy and draw a line from Andromeda through the red star it will take you to M33; the two galaxies are on opposite sides of that red star. There is a beautiful double cluster between Cassiopeia and Perseus -- to name a few. See if my constellation guide helps. I hope that helps! So many cool things to look at.
Great video and very informative! This is extremely helpful for beginners like me, have you had any experience with a Celestron NexStar 8se? I just picked one up for my ( boys 12 & 7 ) and I to get into a field I've always been fascinated about! We've gone out a few times with good visibility, there reaction to seeing the moon up close and personal, my oldest boy kept repeating, "DAD I can see craters!" Absolutely made my day!!!!
Hello: Thank you so much! I have a lot of videos for beginners you can check out. I have not used the Celestron Nexstar. I own two Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, a 12" and 8", and an Orion 6" Maksutov-Cassegrain which are very similar to your Celestron NexStar. They just use different hand controllers but are otherwise very similar in performance and use. That is so sweet about your oldest boy's reaction. Too bad Saturn has already set for a while because after the moon probably anyone's most memorable first at the telescope is seeing Saturn's rings. Jupiter is still up for an hour or two after sunset right now. After that the next best thing to show anyone in a telescope has to be the Great Orion Nebula, M42. I distinctly recall seeing it for the first time and nearly fainting. Good luck!
@@tsulasbigadventures Thank you very much for the advise, and you can be sure that the planets and the Orion Nebula (M42) is on our things to look for! I was able to get us a glimpse of Jupiter and several of her moons before the clouds started rolling in, I may have had the outlandish reaction when I seen that one! LoL Thanks again and I am looking forward to watching some more of your video!
from this video and the evostar 150 i see from the back ground your in a country. What bortle zone or light pollution is this located in? Looks like a nice spot and 360 clear views
This video was made at my house in Southwest Montana. it is currently Bortle 3, but the nearby town is undergoing tremendous development and the sky conditions have deteriorated enormously in just the past five years. Soon it will be Bortle 4.
@@tsulasbigadventures ya i hear you there no running from lp most of the time
I can’t imagine another one or 200 years from now
Thanks
Thanks for watching.
Amazing capture of Saturn. Will you do any post processing of that video using a stacking program? I bet the results would be stunning.
One of my favorite filters I like to use is the Meade variable polarizer. A definite must for the moon but any bright object like venus and jupiter will benefit from it. The thing I like the most is that you can vary the filter while it is in place without having to remove the eyepiece.
Thanks for another great video.
Clear skies
Hi Christopher. Thank you. I am going to process some of my video clips into photos. It takes a long time to make one of these videos and I wanted to finish it while Saturn is in opposition. But later I will take my time and try to get a good photo. The videos I made of the planets are not nearly as good as how I experienced them through the eyepiece. Saturn was magnificent last night using my 3mm Televue Delite. I have never heard of that variable filter you mentioned. I will look into it and see if it's still available.
@@tsulasbigadventures I believe it is the model 905. You can probably get one on Ebay.
I look forward to seeing your photos. Those stacking programs yield some amazing results. Especially when you start with great videos like your Saturn video. Ive had very limited experience with them. The learning curve is very steep but the reaults even for a first timer were pretty good.
@@christopherhamm1574 Thanks. It's going to take me a while but I'll be sure to share the results when I am done.
I got up early and looked at Mars. I noticed the ice caps were almost non existent compared to a month or two earlier. I think I saw Mare Australe but who knows. You know how hard that is to see.
I tried to stay up and look at Mars but it was 3:00 am and it still had not cleared the trees and I packed up and sent to bed. I will try again when it gets higher in the sky at a more decent hour. What telescope did you use to see Mare Australe? That's impressive if you did see it. Tonight the moon will be riding Uranus all night. That should be neat to watch.
@@tsulasbigadventures I believe it was my TSA 120 but could have been one of my dobs. It was hard to see so I could very well be mistaken about the feature I saw. Stellarium showed a different feature than what I thought I saw. Either it or I am mistaken lol!
@@lornaz1975 Well, I'll never tell if you put it down in your star notebook. Ha ha. How are you liking the Takahashi?
@@tsulasbigadventures I must say it is sharp! I looked at the moon with a binoviewer at around 200X and could see the craters inside Plato. I don't think I will be buying any more refractors anytime soon!
@@lornaz1975 Nice. I'm glad to hear it's living up to its expectations.
@TsulasBigAdventures ....Hello Tsula, I am curious do you belong to the planetary society or other astronomy clubs? I think you did mention one from Canada before.
I belong to three astronomy clubs, Southwest Montana Astronomy Club, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
Done 😊
Thank you.
You can also observe earth with the naked eye.
Yes, you can.
I am still on the Pluto is a planet bandwagon 😂.
Having a Telrad seems redundant if I have a finder scope. Maybe I should rewatch that segment of the video.
John, the Telrad is wonderful! I love it and I'm so glad one of the viewers suggested it. It makes it so much easier to locate those first two stars than trying to track them down with an 8x50 finder scope especially when the telescope is way off. I highly recommend adding either a red dot finder or a Telrad to your telescope and use it in conjunction with the finder you have or replacing it since you said you didn't like that 8x50 finder scope anyway.
Telrad is much easier, since they can pinpoint a very tiny point while still allowing wide fov viewing. It's second best to a green laser attached to the telescope, since with that you don't even need to move yourself to look into a viewport 😂