Thanks for sharing! Fun channel. You keep it light hearted. 55 years ago in a rural dark sky part of North Carolina a little girl led me out into a field and handed me a pair of 8x40’s and told me to point it straight up. “Why” I said, “you’ll see” she said. It was the summer Milky Way. I was in awe. Been in awe ever since.
Thank you so much. Aw, what a sweet story. Oh how I remember lying on the grass on summer evenings in South Carolina admiring all those stars in the summer Milky Way splashed across the sky. It's great to keep that awe going for so many years.
Another wonderful video. Just purchased a StellaLyra 8” f/5 Newtonian OTA to mount on my SkyWatcher HEQ 5 Pro mount. Planets are going to rock through my TeleVue 11 mm De Lite eyepiece. I hope🙏Clear Skies always🔭👍
Super images, Tsula! Some of the images of Io's transit make the image look 3-dimensional. That is so neat! Very glad you had some clear skies to see the opposition and the transit. Lightweight jackets and fruit trees in the background! I'm guessing you weren't in MT for this one (and you had to leave Artemis back in the hills. 😔) Thanks for sharing those great views with us, Tsula! (Especially those of us who were/are clouded out...sigh.)o
Thanks, Greg. You are very observant. And you are right: I had to leave Artemis back in the hills with the frigid weather. I got lucky with the clear skies because another atmospheric river is barreling down on CA in the next couple of days.
@@tsulasbigadventuresUgh, sorry to hear that, Tsula, but I'm very happy it held off long enough for you to see Jupiter. I hate to say it for fear of jinxing it, but I think Thursday night might be clear enough so I can observe/photograph between clouds. 🤞 As wrong as the forecasts have been lately, though, I'm not going to get my hopes up too high.
@@gregerianne3880 Thanks. I hope it holds up for you. I stayed up as late as possible last night, the last clear night for a while, to see Uranus at opposition even with my naked eye and to enjoy seeing all the winter constellations rise while it is still very pleasant and mild outside. Clear Skies!
Excellent video! I've been looking at Jupiter with my 6 inch Mak (the same one you have) too. Even here in NYC, the light pollution capital of the world, I've had some good views of the Galilean moons and the cloud belts.
@@tsulasbigadventures It's on the list Tsula, I currently only own a cheap eyepiece. Any recommendations for a mid priced eyepiece? I was considering the Celestron X-Cel LX ? Maybe a 25mm and something like a 9mm ?
Love your youthful exuberance. I'm just getting into to astronomy bug I've always loved looking into the sky, it's just now I know what I'm looking at. I have a Celestron First Scope and a Starwatcher 150 p and I'm pleased with both of them. Please keep posting these wonderful dbd very informative videos. Thank again and enjoy your week . Chrrrs❤🎉😊
Really nice photos Tsula! I was viewing Jupiter around the end of this October or maybe it was the beginning of November and saw seven moons distinctly. First time ever and feel fortunate. However, that red spot is very elusive, still haven’t seen it. 😊
These are such wonderful photos, dear Tsula! I also have an 8inch SC. The planets Jupiter and Mars are still quite low here in Austria around 2 o'clock in the morning. Yesterday I had two planets in my 42mm eyepiece, something like that hasn't happened to me yet. But the seeing is a disaster on these humid and tropical nights. I'm looking forward to seeing the planets in opposition again, you're a role model for me with your 8" SC. I only found your channel because it's the first time I have a telescope like this.
Thank you, Anette. Did you get to see the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on August 12? Saturn will be at opposition on September 8. Even though the rings are nearly edge on you should be able to see some surface detail with your 8" SCT. Good luck and thanks for watching.
@@tsulasbigadventures Unfortunately not, we had cloudy nights. But I can hardly wait for better conditions and the opposition. Is it possible to see the Planets really sharp through an eyepiece like on this video you finally made? Some people tell about such observations, I imagine the weather conditions must be like in Atacama desert then. Greetings from Anette
@@anetteaslan6088 Anette: It is possible to see a planet very sharp when the planet is at opposition and close to earth and most importantly when the seeing is excellent. That is the main factor for seeing a planet really well. For planets the light pollution won't be a big factor but the seeing will.
Great video and excellent pictures. I was watching Jupiter a few days ago with my celestron orange 8” classic sct for a few hours in the freezing cold before the weather in the uk turned bad. I may try to video it at some point. I am thinking of going from 1.1/4” eyepiece to 2” are there any advantages I know the cost is higher. I rather fancy trying out baader Hyperion eyepiece or televue.
Thank you. It seems like the weather in the UK is always bad. Two inch eyepieces may give a wider field of view and brighter images. The Baader can be used as a 2" or 1.25" eyepiece. It comes with an attachment to convert it.
The Baader orthos are actually 50 degree across the range. The 10mm is the best of all with great contrast. They are lauded by users of big dobsonians for hunting faint fuzzies in dark skies.
Thank you. I cannot understand where that ring came from. After making the Jupiter videos into an image I save them as TIFFS and I put a couple of them in Photoshop to see if I could improve anything and I think that's where the ring became introduced. It wasn't visible on my computer.
It depends on what mount I am using. With my 12" SCT it only requires a two star alignment. For my EQ mounts I always do a three star alignment because it will make your telescope more accurate. And with my Losmandy you just need to center one star.
I had a go at making my first Jupiter video 2 nights ago. I was quite pleased with the result after stacking that my Skywatcher Startravel 150mm refractor managed to produce.
Funnily enough dates for the opposition varied depending on the source you read although they were around the same time , very early November.I think that I read dates of the 2nd,3rd and 4th not that it'd make much different a few days either side plus it may be cloudy on the opposition date.I only used my tiny 25mm Pocket Borg refractor to look at it but even with that and a 9mm Skywatcher Planetary eyepiece you can just see the cloud bands.
I know. I read one article that said November 4 and another said November 3. But Jupiter is so close that you wouldn't notice in change in its size even a week or two before or after. Wow, you could see the bands with a 25mm refractor? That's cool.
Sure. I took several two minute captures. I used a RAW8 color space, 800x600 capture area (sometimes a little more), 3.28ms exposure, and for the gain I first push it all the way up to find and center the planet and then just keep moving the gain back down until the planet is no longer over-exposed but I have a decent amount of frames per second which is displayed at the bottom. I just go by what looks good. I used a different gain for each of the two minute exposures but I think it was around 300.
Oh, wait. We don’t get to see the differences in your eye pieces, as we obviously only get to see the optic the camera was used with. I’m such a noob: I thought „I don’t see any difference.“ - Of course I don’t.
The Jupiter images were stunning, especially the ones of Io's shadow on the Great Red Spot. I've heard another theory, a more remarkable one, about Jupiter's core - that it's composed of metallic methane on whose surface rise diamond mountains formed by elemental carbon under tremendous pressure. The carbon is formed by electrical discharges on carbon dioxide and other gases in the upper Jovian atmosphere. Also, Jupiter wasn't named after Zeus but Zeus Pater, the cognate "father god" of the old Indo-Europeans, "zeus" being a variant of the "deus" which became our "deity." 🙂
Thanks, Walter. Well, let's hope that there aren't diamond mountains inside Jupiter because surely someone will propose mining them one day. I've never heard that about Zeus pater. Will have to read up on that later today.
@@tsulasbigadventures Let's hope, instead, that humanity survives long enough to mine in a hostile environment like the Jovian core - at the moment, things look a little less hopeful than at other times. It's a deep dive into the history of the Indo-Europeans, much of which depends on educated guesswork informed by language studies, otherwise known as philology. (J.R.R. Tolkien was an expert on this subject.) The American poet John Ciardi, whose Dante translation was required college reading back in the day, said that words are like the bricks in the buildings of medieval Rome - those bricks are still Roman even though they were rearranged at a later date. So it's possible, using cognate words like "deus" and "deity," to trace movements of history back to their starting point. (If you've seen the awful Ridley Scott movie PROMETHEUS, you'll remember the android David taking a crash course in philology as a means of communicating with the Engineers.) A notable example is the Hindu "maha rajah," which is usually translated as "great king" but which is more accurately "mighty regent" - you see how closely the two resemble one another despite a separation of 10,000 miles and 3,500 years. ("Maha deo! Mighty god! Shiva made us all!" - Kipling) Such studies lead, according to some scholars, to a remarkable place, the Iranian province of Manzandaran. Google pictures of it! Due to a topology like that of the incessantly rainy Seattle, but in a much hotter climate, it's practically a jungle in the midst of the desert - a "perfect land" of the ancient texts.
@@tsulasbigadventures I first came across it in H.G. Wells's OUTLINE OF HISTORY. And later, while doing research for my unpublished historical novel about ancient Afghanistan, I read all of the Zend Avesta, the Zoroastrian bible, which is the oldest and best source on the Indo-European question. So none of this is particularly new - in fact, it was the inspiration of a notorious and misguided 1930s expedition, about which there's videos on TH-cam. (Zoroastrianism, by the way, is itself a fascinating study. The three wise men of the old Christian story were Zoroastrians, and the family of the orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta, who's a Zoroastrian with a Jewish wife and Catholic children, is the history of Western religion in a nutshell.) Ridley Scott makes a lot of bad (and overrated) movies, but there's something there, and I must confess to liking THE HOUSE OF GUCCI, which features a surprisingly good performance by Lady Gaga.
@@waltergold3457 OK. I need to educate myself about it. Thanks for all this fascinating information. I didn't know that about Zubin Mehta's family either.
Jupiter is very bright and washes out anything that close to it and I'm very zoomed in on the planet so that you cannot even see the moons of Jupiter. If I had zoomed out you would have seen a couple of the moons but not as much detail on Jupiter. It's not fake and I did not paint over it. This is how it looks in my telescope at high magnification.
Nice capture....
Thank you.
Awesome so majestic and ominous! Great photos thank you for sharing these.
Thank you.
Great video of Jupiter. Thanks Tsula!
Thank you!
Great captures, Tsula!
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Great shot. Thank you.
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Way Cool
Amazing 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you.
stumbled upon this channel quite accidentally, now i'm hooked! subscription activated!
Thank you!
Great video Tsula. Thank you so much
Thanks, Kevin.
I watched that the other night too. It was really, really cool through a 10mm on a Celestron 8”.
Thanks for sharing! Fun channel. You keep it light hearted. 55 years ago in a rural dark sky part of North Carolina a little girl led me out into a field and handed me a pair of 8x40’s and told me to point it straight up. “Why” I said, “you’ll see” she said. It was the summer Milky Way. I was in awe. Been in awe ever since.
Thank you so much. Aw, what a sweet story. Oh how I remember lying on the grass on summer evenings in South Carolina admiring all those stars in the summer Milky Way splashed across the sky. It's great to keep that awe going for so many years.
@@tsulasbigadventures Ahhhh….yes I miss those days. Beauty, awe, wonder, discovery
Another wonderful video. Just purchased a StellaLyra 8” f/5 Newtonian OTA to mount on my SkyWatcher HEQ 5 Pro mount. Planets are going to rock through my TeleVue 11 mm De Lite eyepiece. I hope🙏Clear Skies always🔭👍
Thank you. Indeed! Sounds like a nice set up.
Loved the video as I have the meade 8inch SCT. I finally got to image the grs as its usually on the dark side when i look. 😊
Thanks Leon.
How cool to see the great red spot and a transit at the same time! Thanks for sharing these images!
Thank you. It's a lot of fun to watch a transit.
Super images, Tsula! Some of the images of Io's transit make the image look 3-dimensional. That is so neat! Very glad you had some clear skies to see the opposition and the transit. Lightweight jackets and fruit trees in the background! I'm guessing you weren't in MT for this one (and you had to leave Artemis back in the hills. 😔) Thanks for sharing those great views with us, Tsula! (Especially those of us who were/are clouded out...sigh.)o
Thanks, Greg. You are very observant. And you are right: I had to leave Artemis back in the hills with the frigid weather. I got lucky with the clear skies because another atmospheric river is barreling down on CA in the next couple of days.
@@tsulasbigadventuresUgh, sorry to hear that, Tsula, but I'm very happy it held off long enough for you to see Jupiter. I hate to say it for fear of jinxing it, but I think Thursday night might be clear enough so I can observe/photograph between clouds. 🤞 As wrong as the forecasts have been lately, though, I'm not going to get my hopes up too high.
@@gregerianne3880 Thanks. I hope it holds up for you. I stayed up as late as possible last night, the last clear night for a while, to see Uranus at opposition even with my naked eye and to enjoy seeing all the winter constellations rise while it is still very pleasant and mild outside. Clear Skies!
This is my favorite time to observe Jupiter with my 12inch DOB!!!
I bet it looked great in your 12" Dob!
Excellent video! I've been looking at Jupiter with my 6 inch Mak (the same one you have) too. Even here in NYC, the light pollution capital of the world, I've had some good views of the Galilean moons and the cloud belts.
Thank you. That's a great telescope for the planets. Nice!
I love it, in the transit of the moons of Jupiter, I love the shadow transit !!!
Great video and images Tsula! ❤ Thanks for sharing your views of Jupiter! 🔭
That looked a real treat Tsula, especially with IO transiting. I need to get onto Jupiter soon. :)
Thanks Ollie. Yes, you need to get out and look at Jupiter with that 9.25 of yours. Jupiter is huge in the eyepiece.
@@tsulasbigadventures It's on the list Tsula, I currently only own a cheap eyepiece. Any recommendations for a mid priced eyepiece? I was considering the Celestron X-Cel LX ? Maybe a 25mm and something like a 9mm ?
Great video, really enjoying your down to earth common sense site!
Thank you so much!
This was a couple days ago. I remember that shadow practically on top of the red spot. I had my 120mm apo triplet looking at it.
Yep.
Hi Tsula! IO you thanks for another great video! 😉
Hi Bill. You're funny.
Great video! I just picked up a 8" dob and have been loving how much more detail of Jupiter I see over my 5" sct. DSO are next on my list.
Thank you. That 8" Dob will really shine on DSOs.
Love your youthful exuberance. I'm just getting into to astronomy bug I've always loved looking into the sky, it's just now I know what I'm looking at. I have a Celestron First Scope and a Starwatcher 150 p and I'm pleased with both of them. Please keep posting these wonderful dbd very informative videos. Thank again and enjoy your week
. Chrrrs❤🎉😊
Thank you so much and welcome to the astronomy bug club.
Excellent images Tsula! Great subject matter too! The moon, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are my favorite targets. In that order.
Thanks, Chris.
i just caught the end of one of these the other night, i alwas call it a lucky night when you get to see things like this
Really nice photos Tsula! I was viewing Jupiter around the end of this October or maybe it was the beginning of November and saw seven moons distinctly. First time ever and feel fortunate. However, that red spot is very elusive, still haven’t seen it. 😊
Thanks! Wow. Seven moons is pretty good. Do you get alerts from Sky Safari? They will tell you when a GRS is about to occur.
These are such wonderful photos, dear Tsula! I also have an 8inch SC. The planets Jupiter and Mars are still quite low here in Austria around 2 o'clock in the morning. Yesterday I had two planets in my 42mm eyepiece, something like that hasn't happened to me yet. But the seeing is a disaster on these humid and tropical nights. I'm looking forward to seeing the planets in opposition again, you're a role model for me with your 8" SC. I only found your channel because it's the first time I have a telescope like this.
Thank you, Anette. Did you get to see the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on August 12? Saturn will be at opposition on September 8. Even though the rings are nearly edge on you should be able to see some surface detail with your 8" SCT. Good luck and thanks for watching.
@@tsulasbigadventures Unfortunately not, we had cloudy nights. But I can hardly wait for better conditions and the opposition. Is it possible to see the Planets really sharp through an eyepiece like on this video you finally made? Some people tell about such observations, I imagine the weather conditions must be like in Atacama desert then.
Greetings from Anette
@@anetteaslan6088 Anette: It is possible to see a planet very sharp when the planet is at opposition and close to earth and most importantly when the seeing is excellent. That is the main factor for seeing a planet really well. For planets the light pollution won't be a big factor but the seeing will.
Great video and excellent pictures. I was watching Jupiter a few days ago with my celestron orange 8” classic sct for a few hours in the freezing cold before the weather in the uk turned bad. I may try to video it at some point. I am thinking of going from 1.1/4” eyepiece to 2” are there any advantages I know the cost is higher. I rather fancy trying out baader Hyperion eyepiece or televue.
Thank you. It seems like the weather in the UK is always bad. Two inch eyepieces may give a wider field of view and brighter images. The Baader can be used as a 2" or 1.25" eyepiece. It comes with an attachment to convert it.
Many thanks for getting back to me. I will look into them.
The Baader orthos are actually 50 degree across the range. The 10mm is the best of all with great contrast. They are lauded by users of big dobsonians for hunting faint fuzzies in dark skies.
And very affordable. I bought it for the planets but I'll have to try the 10mm out on my Dobsonian.
Fantastic video and images Tsula! What is that gray ring around some of the images?
Thank you. I cannot understand where that ring came from. After making the Jupiter videos into an image I save them as TIFFS and I put a couple of them in Photoshop to see if I could improve anything and I think that's where the ring became introduced. It wasn't visible on my computer.
Great timing. I'm currently imaging Saturn and Jupiter over next several days. Tsula do you do a two star alignment to sky align?
It depends on what mount I am using. With my 12" SCT it only requires a two star alignment. For my EQ mounts I always do a three star alignment because it will make your telescope more accurate. And with my Losmandy you just need to center one star.
Tsula, would a 1990 Meade 2120 model 30 be worth buying today?
I had a go at making my first Jupiter video 2 nights ago. I was quite pleased with the result after stacking that my Skywatcher Startravel 150mm refractor managed to produce.
Jupiter is so close to earth right now; it's a great time to look at and video Jupiter.
Funnily enough dates for the opposition varied depending on the source you read although they were around the same time , very early November.I think that I read dates of the 2nd,3rd and 4th not that it'd make much different a few days either side plus it may be cloudy on the opposition date.I only used my tiny 25mm Pocket Borg refractor to look at it but even with that and a 9mm Skywatcher Planetary eyepiece you can just see the cloud bands.
I know. I read one article that said November 4 and another said November 3. But Jupiter is so close that you wouldn't notice in change in its size even a week or two before or after. Wow, you could see the bands with a 25mm refractor? That's cool.
You should have used a smaller ROI as that would give you a much faster frame rate which is far better for lucky imaging.
Thank you for the tip. I will try that next time.
Can you please share video time captured and details of camera setting
Sure. I took several two minute captures. I used a RAW8 color space, 800x600 capture area (sometimes a little more), 3.28ms exposure, and for the gain I first push it all the way up to find and center the planet and then just keep moving the gain back down until the planet is no longer over-exposed but I have a decent amount of frames per second which is displayed at the bottom. I just go by what looks good. I used a different gain for each of the two minute exposures but I think it was around 300.
@@tsulasbigadventures Thanks for sharing. I will attempt europa Transit tomorrow.
@@OmkarJoshi-jt1uy You're welcome and good luck with it.
gotta love Jupiter--as you can tell my my profile pic
Nice profile pic.
Oh, wait. We don’t get to see the differences in your eye pieces, as we obviously only get to see the optic the camera was used with. I’m such a noob: I thought „I don’t see any difference.“ - Of course I don’t.
The Jupiter images were stunning, especially the ones of Io's shadow on the Great Red Spot.
I've heard another theory, a more remarkable one, about Jupiter's core - that it's composed of metallic methane on whose surface rise diamond mountains formed by elemental carbon under tremendous pressure. The carbon is formed by electrical discharges on carbon dioxide and other gases in the upper Jovian atmosphere.
Also, Jupiter wasn't named after Zeus but Zeus Pater, the cognate "father god" of the old Indo-Europeans, "zeus" being a variant of the "deus" which became our "deity." 🙂
Thanks, Walter. Well, let's hope that there aren't diamond mountains inside Jupiter because surely someone will propose mining them one day. I've never heard that about Zeus pater. Will have to read up on that later today.
@@tsulasbigadventures Let's hope, instead, that humanity survives long enough to mine in a hostile environment like the Jovian core - at the moment, things look a little less hopeful than at other times.
It's a deep dive into the history of the Indo-Europeans, much of which depends on educated guesswork informed by language studies, otherwise known as philology. (J.R.R. Tolkien was an expert on this subject.) The American poet John Ciardi, whose Dante translation was required college reading back in the day, said that words are like the bricks in the buildings of medieval Rome - those bricks are still Roman even though they were rearranged at a later date. So it's possible, using cognate words like "deus" and "deity," to trace movements of history back to their starting point. (If you've seen the awful Ridley Scott movie PROMETHEUS, you'll remember the android David taking a crash course in philology as a means of communicating with the Engineers.) A notable example is the Hindu "maha rajah," which is usually translated as "great king" but which is more accurately "mighty regent" - you see how closely the two resemble one another despite a separation of 10,000 miles and 3,500 years. ("Maha deo! Mighty god! Shiva made us all!" - Kipling)
Such studies lead, according to some scholars, to a remarkable place, the Iranian province of Manzandaran. Google pictures of it! Due to a topology like that of the incessantly rainy Seattle, but in a much hotter climate, it's practically a jungle in the midst of the desert - a "perfect land" of the ancient texts.
@@waltergold3457 This is all very fascinating and I have never heard of it. I will need to investigate tomorrow. I don't like Ridley Scott.
@@tsulasbigadventures I first came across it in H.G. Wells's OUTLINE OF HISTORY. And later, while doing research for my unpublished historical novel about ancient Afghanistan, I read all of the Zend Avesta, the Zoroastrian bible, which is the oldest and best source on the Indo-European question. So none of this is particularly new - in fact, it was the inspiration of a notorious and misguided 1930s expedition, about which there's videos on TH-cam. (Zoroastrianism, by the way, is itself a fascinating study. The three wise men of the old Christian story were Zoroastrians, and the family of the orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta, who's a Zoroastrian with a Jewish wife and Catholic children, is the history of Western religion in a nutshell.)
Ridley Scott makes a lot of bad (and overrated) movies, but there's something there, and I must confess to liking THE HOUSE OF GUCCI, which features a surprisingly good performance by Lady Gaga.
@@waltergold3457 OK. I need to educate myself about it. Thanks for all this fascinating information. I didn't know that about Zubin Mehta's family either.
question why is there no stars and it looks fake did you paint it just never seen anything other then shimmering lights so im not sure
Jupiter is very bright and washes out anything that close to it and I'm very zoomed in on the planet so that you cannot even see the moons of Jupiter. If I had zoomed out you would have seen a couple of the moons but not as much detail on Jupiter. It's not fake and I did not paint over it. This is how it looks in my telescope at high magnification.