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The Universe through my telescope

In this post I am sharing a few photos of the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter that I clicked with the help of my telescope. I hope to share more pictures soon.

I have a 130mm reflector telescope with 10mm eyepiece that can magnify the image by 65 times. Since I don't have a camera that could be attached to the telescope, I had to use my phone's 5MP camera. It was very difficult to click these pictures as the aperture of a 10 mm eyepiece is very small. And as the camera is not powerful, the picture resolution is low.

Here are the pictures

The Moon

The Moon looked beautiful through the 10 mm eyepiece as it filled up the entire field of view.


This is an inverted image because reflector telescopes produce inverted images.

Saturn
Viewing Saturn through the telescope was a treat. The planet looked magnificent with its majestic rings.


Jupiter 
Though it can't be seen in this picture, I could see the latitudinal cloud bands on Jupiter.


Four of the largest moons of Jupiter have been labeled. All the moons appear along the diagonal of the picture because the camera was tilted while clicking the picture

Comments

  1. This is so awe inspiring! You can finally see the planets you have always read about.

    I am waiting for pictures of Mars!

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  2. I can never forget these photos :) :)

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  3. Thank you! If the sky is clear, I should be able to click pictures of Mars within the next ten days.

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  4. woow! Never really saw anyone taking pictures through a telescope.Kudos!

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  5. Great! its amazing that you could take pictures with a phone camera connected your telescope

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  6. It is a tough set up. I am trying to find an alternative...

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