Okayokayokay— As soon as I saw that there was a featured space studio I was like yESSSS Well anyways here’s some really crappy pictures I took through my telescope. Most of them are edited to make the details pop out (unless it says it’s unedited otherwise). 1. Things that I use to stargaze! Being: - Field and stream telescope (the one on the tripod), originally built for birdwatching, but used for both stargazing and birdwatching (I’m a geek for both!) - The backpack for the scope - A space catalog - A Night sky guide with seasonal star maps - A protractor (for very very rough measuring, if you don’t know, sky distance is measured in degrees) - A star diary, I like jotting down notes and observations. - Multiple lenses (Let’s call them the 17mm lens and the 6mm lens. There’s also a Bauer lens) - And a dobsonian telescope. This one was made for viewing deep space objects! (Specific model: Orion Starblast 4.5 I think..?) 2. First photo ever taken with the dobsonian! This was on June 26, 2019. You can see Jupiter and three of it’s Galilean moons! (Btw all these photos were taken with the dobsonian telescope, usually with the 17mm lens) 3. This one was taken a couple of days after. See how the moons changed position? :D 4. This was on 1/21/2020. A very very crappy picture of Venus! I couldn’t take a very good one because it was positioned right between two big trees lol. 5. I took this picture with the 6mm lens and zoomed in. 6. Unedited version 7. (Unedited) Again on 1/21/2020, it was a REALLY good night for stargazing. Where I live, there’s only about 10 really good nights. I managed to find the Pilates cluster! (Kinda dim ik) 8. Edited to look brighter 9. Another photo, because why not (unedited) 10. Ayeee so on really good nights, there’s the rare occasion where it’s possible to see color through the telescope! If it’s not a really bright object such as a planet or a star, mostly everything appears in black and white. But on that night I could see something as dim as the Pilates cluster in full color (so the sky was really dark!). This picture was edited and flipped right-side-up to show that color (I marked edit there and forgot to remove it whoops!) 11. (Unedited) On 12/10/19, the moon was super bright for some reason in my area. So what did I do? I did a little one-man star party! :D 12. Edited photo. 13. I used the 6mm lens to look at the moon up close... 14. More moon photos! 15. (Yes this is edited) This is a picture without a lens! Dobsonian telescopes have mirrors that reflect light into the eyepiece. One big one at the end of the tube and one in the middle. There’s a dot on the big one that can’t be seen with a lens, but can be seen without one (that’s what the grey dot is) 16. Another edited photo of the moon. 17. I feel like this photo could be a frame of some old film where a satellite is flying by the moon... 18. You can tell I take wayyy too many photos of the moon! 19. (LAST MOON PHOTO I SWEAR) Here’s an edited and labeled version of a photo I took. Scratch just loves ruining photo quality so you can’t really see the things I wrote, so I wrote numbers on them. The numbers mark moon craters, being: (1) Tycho (2) Grimaldi (3) Kepler (4) Aristorchus (5) Copernicus You might be wondering, “why is north on the east and east on the south??” Dobsonian telescopes have a tendency to reflect things upside down, then sideways. It’s because they are reflector telescopes, they use mirrors to see things. These mirrors kinda go crazy crazy and I think you see where this is going. Refractor telescopes (such as the field and stream telescope on the tripod) don’t have this problem because they use lenses to see things, not mirrors. 20. A photo of a tiny Venus I took about 2 months ago. Since planets can appear closer or farther depending on the time of year, Venus was farther away from Earth when I took this photo, compared to some of the photos on previous slides. Wow. You made it to the end! Congrats! :D
