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Planets
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.
 If you have images that you want to show off
please send them to us.
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