Planets of Our Solar System Gallery
The planets of our solar system are our
future. Most people get hooked on Astronomy when they first glimpse
the rings of Saturn thorugh a telescope. The images below show you
what patience and a good scope can do.
The below images of Mars were taken by Terry
Robinson in Melbourne Australia.
Details about each image are listed with it. Click
each image for a larger view.
This first image is from Dan Chaffee in Kansas
City, Mo.. He writes "here is the best drawing of Saturn
I've done. I used colored pencils on vellum. Since colored drawing
requires strong white light, I had to make notes while observing
that would be incorporated as soon as I could get inside and
start the actual drawing. I probably spent around three hours
on it, carefully building light layers of tiny strokes of slightly
different colors to arive at what finally looked right. The transparency
was rather good that night, which allowed for good observations
of the slight color differences of the planet and rings.Seeing
was good enough to show a faint trace of the Enke gap, which
I have tried to show as realistically as I saw it."
This next image was taken by Luis
Eguren. Using a DS-10 (older version of Starfinder) through
a 2.8 Klee Barlow using a QuickCam VC. 30 images were stacked in
2 x 2.
The next two images are from Joe Martz in Los
Alamos, NM. Taken January 24th, 2001. Jupiter and Saturn. 10" LX-200 f/10 w/ Televue
Nagler 9mm and Lumicon 2" Star Diagonal. Eyepiece projection
photograph with Nikon Coolpix 990 attached to eyepiece via 28mm
step ring. Coolpix on max optical zoom, camera in manual mode
and pictures triggered with remote release cable. Jupiter: 1/8
s, f/4.0; Saturn: 1/2 s, f/4.0. Files cropped and levels adjusted
with Photoshop 5.0; no color manipulation.
The below images were taken by John Judish.
These pictures were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 990 digital
camera with a Meade 8" LX50. The Saturn and Jupiter shots were
shot through the lens (26mm 80X) at 1/15 sec and f3.6. The
composite picture of digital images put together with Photoshop
showing Orion and some shots of Jupiter and Saturn.
Below is a picture of Saturn that was taken by Phil Watt using
a: Meade ETX90EC (90mm) at Prime Focus using a fan cooled color
Quickcam; 60 images stacked.
The below image of Jupiter was taken by Kip
on November 20th at 7:10pm (PST) useing an Olympus D450 with
the afocal method through a CR-150 (6") refractor with a 17mm
plossl w/ barlow to make it 72x.A lunar and blue filter were
used to cut the glare.
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