Man you should do a video where you take a flat earther and teach him how to make his own damn telescope so that they can look up into the sky and they can't say that anything was tampered with nothing like that because the video you just did with the 6-in mirror you absolutely could see that the surface was round but they want to argue that it's not even solid it's just a light bulb so.. you one of the first videos or RU-vidrs I've seen that does anything with telescopes..
Best view i ever had of mars was through a 28" dobsonian at dawn from a dark site at 8300 ft (mt pinos, ca), it was very high in the sky and the seeing was excellent
The wind seems like such a big enemy of his I hope one day he can afford to move out into the country and build an observatory. As long as that's something that he would like to do one day.
Bro wtf. Here in Canada it’s so bright, literaly blue in the sky, absolutely 0 stars. And the clouds here are so bad, the entire sky 24/7 is filled with clouds. I’ve never seen a clear black night since like 5 years ago I swear
Anything in or on the optical path of your scope could not be that sharp or defined in focus. The only place would be directly on the imaging surface of your ccd. I doubt it's a critter of any kind. It could be an orbital object (satellite) though that would be an extraordinary coincidence.
Newtonian telescopes need collimation before use. Am amazed an astronomer photographer does not know this. A refractor would be a better choice for Astro imaging on the fly.
I use the sleeve of an eyepiece, and the dust cap that attaches to it (with a hole in it), and I have a metal washer glued to the inside of the cap. It makes it a lot easier to see when you are actually close, and helps you get it a bit more accurate. And then I point the scope close to a light, like a ceiling bulb so that the washer reflects some of the light to illuminate the washer. But the funny thing is that I always find it easier to collimate when the primary is a lot out of whack, because I can see everything aligning gradually. Like, I had to clean my primary this evening, and when I put it back together it was way off, and I just turned a few of the knobs and then it was collimated about a minute later, and I was like WTH, it's done already? 🤣 It does take a while to get used to collimating though; when I first started out I was never quite sure what I was looking at through the collimator, with all the mirrors and reflections everywhere, but after a while your brain starts filtering out the secondary mirror and stuff, and it gets much easier.
You are either too excited or you're a terrible clumsy idiot mate 😤. How can you break your secondary mirror strings twice ‼️⁉️⁉️ do you have butter fingers or something ⁉️ I can cook a steak 🥩 better than you can break that beautiful carbon fiber reinforced telescope 🔭. This is very disappointing to see knowing that you're supporters are passing lots of money to super you're travels and shots. If you break those strings a third time, Kerry should start charging you for every build and replacement.
Congratulations. IAC80 captured something but one didn't pay attention to it. It captured a thin horizontal Saucer or rod shaped ATV with reflection on its top and its bottom in the dark @ 25:10 exactly near the middle of right border of the video frame. Can you see it? Kindly zoom it further to let us know what is that?
How do I know if I can connect my E-mount Sony mirrorless camera to one of these (or any) telescopes? What adaptor(s) would I need? I'm new at this, and I've never found an answer anywhere. Vendors seem to assume you already know or that you just want to look through the eyepiece. Help?
"I cannot wait!" Looks like a long cold night! Been there brother. lol Amazing shot of Mars! I also expected this to be a photometry transient video. I was pleasantly surprised to see you *actually* captured a dust disk. Awesome work. Congrats!!!
I am quite convinced that if you were able to translate your videos into other languages, such as Italian, the views and subscribers to the channel would increase exponentially. I offer you my most sincere compliments for the work you are doing, always useful but also fun and exciting.
Sorry Mate !! But much part of the music is coming from the game Gran turismo 7 . I do play this game every day and the music is the same !! DJ dont know how to make music!. !! Now lets go back to the stars. !!
That is probably Earth's second moon. It's small and about that shape. If it was a moonless night and it passes in front of mars it would appear black like that. Still I think it's unlikely but it is a option if the conditions are just right.
Fun fact: solar system only applies to our star system as sol is the name of our sun. Any other systems would be the name of their star plus system such as the orion system. Please dont use solar systems when you mean other star systems.
What a wonderful discovery to have found your channel. I absolutely love these telescope challenges. I own a celestron 8. But it is stowed away in my attic. Your enthousiasm makes me to dig it up tomorrow. I will have to learn all over again how to set it up. I remember why my initial enthousiasm died before getting my first real views. I live in the most light polluted areas in Holland. But i guess if I start tomorrow maybe this winter there'll be some viewing opportunities. Thank for lighting this flame again. I have subscribed to your channel and hope for more content . Cheers Martin.
مرحبا شكرا لك على هذا الفيديو وانني رايته متاخرا بعد سبع شهور ولكن ولكن التفت لنظره في الفيديو عندما تكبير تلسكوب في القمر الم ترى تلك المشهد عندما كبرت الزوم تلسكوب الماء الذي كان في القمر كالموج البحر البحر
this reminded me today to try to see if there's something loose on my telescope mount because it had a small ammount of wobble for quite some time, and I think I found it the extendable tripod legs weren't fixed in place tightly enough :P sometimes a small oversight can go undetected for a long time
