My telescope - Celestron 9.25” sct and cgemii mount: bit.ly/46481dE Main camera - zwo 183mc pro Guide camera - zwo asi299mm mini Zwo asi air pro to control the telescope
A very close friend of our family passed away almost a year ago. He gifted our youngest daughter (5) a massive telescope bc she said she was going to be an astronaut when she grew up. He said you can see the rings of Saturn with it. The first time she looked into that telescope, I truly understood the gift. He gave her something most people won't ever get to see in their lifetime. It has deepened her interest! Thank you Tom, you are missed. Thank you for sharing
@@blackgateboxingxuanmenquan6407 I'm so glad you took time to say something, on your break, I know it's hard for you make friends. Seeing as you are such a smart ass. I kinda feel sorry for you....
I still have a picture I took with my old Samsung digital camera. This was one of the two that had an extremely good zoom at the time. It had a 3000 and if you put it on a tripod aimed it at the moon at night and put it on a 3-second delay then hit the button, you would get a picture of the Moon showing craters. Not as good as this one of course but absolutely incredible! 🌙
@@zootedwym2243 I would like to tell you about my holiday in Jupiter one day while sipping tea at 17:00 in the depths of space... and I would love to listen to your adventures...
@LCARSDATANODEbc to quote neil degrasse tyson "to a giant the earth would appear as a smooth sphere..". In relation to the size the topographical difference in planets isn't that great.
Amazing. I will forever remember the very first time I looked through a cheap telescope and was able to see a little dot with a “ring around it”. Saturn. It really makes the solar system and the universe real. Even with a little blurry dot with a ring…. The reality that you can “discover” something so amazing in your own backyard.
I will forever remember that I asked for such telescope as a kid for my birthday, but my parents bought me a microscope instead and I was like, what the heck??
My partner told me that they used to look through a telescope all the time with their father. I've never owned one or even known anyone who could afford one. So I purchased one a couple days ago and it will be here in a few days. I'm excited to take a look through it and see my favorite celestial objects a little bit closer.
Damn that's both awesome and sad. I used to set mine up on the the street and let the kids that walked by look. Half the time grown adults my age or older were just as excited too. Seeing some of this stuff in your own eyes is something a video and image can never touch.
My dad’s an astrophysisit and I once visited his telescope at cambridge boston and a used on in the canary islands in a remote area, was pretty cool. Always hated physics tho :)
I went to camp one summer, Tim Hortons camp, the Canadian Dunking Donuts and they didn't just have a telescope, they had a freaking observatory, rotating white dome around a GIANT telescope. The detail that thing had on the moon was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
You know what isn't beautiful about Tim Hortons Camp? The fact that they medically discriminated and banned and kicked out kids who didn't take experimental injections (covid vaccines). Absolutely disgusting, fuck Tim Hortons sellouts
My dad bought a nice telescope when I was 14. I begrudgingly went outside one night with him to look at the moon. I still get chills 18 years just telling the story of how incredible it was to see that detail with my own eye and the moon as it was in that second and not a picture on my computer.
The universe is so beautiful and terrifying at the same time lol. I only wish I was born in a time where humans are actually out there exploring the stars.
15 years ago, i had bought a $25 telescope from CVS. I still have it today. Even with something that cheap, i was able to see the craters on the moon. There was a lot of adjusting to focus correctly but when it was done right, it was truly amazing. One of my goals is to buy a much better telescope to be able to see things in 4k
@@rajsastrophotographyi hope u know earth is not a sphere but flat with a dome and crea creation itself is comes from Center North confined back to a point of Singularity and it is expressed through our night sky parabolically 180° split both ways giving us the impression of a sun setting in a sun rise likewise for the moon which does the opposite of the sun's movement everything revolves around us not us around it and that mon that you are looking at it's made out of plasma not a physical object we are physical live in a duality the spiritual the non-physical the world that we can't see which is connected to our soul
@@davenportsiemaju are referring to the speed the Earth rotates but u need to understand that speed is relative and the moon also is orbiting the Earth it’s not stationary. Rotate a tennis ball at 1mph it will look faster than a basketball rotating at that same speed. Now imagine watching a giant ball move at 1mph. U might not be able to tell that it’s moving. U can’t tell the earth is moving because it’s huge and u are on it. It’s like tossing a ball while in a moving car. The ball will fall back in the same place no matter how fast you are driving.
@@ezekiel3934 It’s insanely special if you think about it, we’ve had intelligent life on Earth for 0.00000125% of the time life has existed. With that math that would mean that one in every 3 Million planets that has life would have intelligent life, and we haven’t even found one planet that has life. We almost destroyed ourselves into extinction just 1000 years ago over religion. What we have right now at this moment it’s the most special thing Earth had experienced in 4 Billion years.
The moon was the most impressive thing to me when my dad would bust his orion out. But seeing a small saturn with the rings and two moons on both sides of it with your own eye is just different.
Lol remember when those flat eathers spent like 20 grand on a gyroscope and it proved them wrong so they did a simpler experiment which also proved them wrong?
Interesting. I didn't notice, but it makes sense that the angle of the sunlight is sharpest there, so the contrast between shadows and peaks is greatest. Thanks for mentioning it.
I sold my telescope last year to downsize, this is the year I pick out my base model that I can upgrade over a few years. This video just gave me chills, I'm so excited 😁
You don’t need a large reflector to see the moon like that. Reflectors are best for dim stars and galaxies. Refractors are for sharp images. I used to own a 3” refractor. The craters of the moon looked incredible.
So so people know, you can still see great detail of moon with a much smaller and cheaper telescope too. it's not as zoomed in but you can see all the craters and stuff.
@@asjadaziz5079 Yeah it's actually only the size of a jet airliner and is only a few thousand feet up. What the FAA doesn't want you to know is that in order to maintain the worldwide LIES about the size and distance of the sun, the American government has to route all worldwide air traffic (4000+ planes at any given time) AROUND the sun so that they don't crash into it and destroy the world. Also, never shoot a gun at the sun. You'll slowly make it bigger and bigger and eventually it will be so big it will touch the ground and set it on fire.
