Let’s see what you got, post a picture that you took.
I’ll start with one I took with an IPhone through a Celestron Nexstar 9.25” telescope
Here is a couple pictures of Saturn from last night. It looks so much better in the telescope, but not bad for an object 746,000,000 miles away.
Something about the backyard telescope pics I see online of Saturn creeps me out. Almost like the rings shouldn’t be real . A planet that only exists on schoolroom posters or something. Hard to explain
Pic couple nights ago on my walk. You can smell the Canadian wildfires in air even though I’m in southern Maine . Giving moon haze
It was the first time that I saw Saturn in the new scope and I thought it looked faked. It was a weird feeling at first. It was so much sharper and crisp in person as that picture was taken with an iPhone.
The picture of Saturn from the telescope OP took is amazing. I love looking at the sky.
Will the average person ever be able to take pictures like this of planets with future technologies?
Yeah it’s just surreal to see. From Hubble or something powerful it seems fine but like that I don’t know lol. Just creepy
Yes…seeing it from your backyard must be very powerful.
I always wanted a telescope or go to an observatory to see space.
Yes, this is possible from backyard telescopes with a camera and good software. Basically you can take thousands of pictures and use photo software to take out the best parts of each picture and make that picture. That picture was probably taken with a telescope like mine or maybe a couple inches larger. I got a camera but have not learned to use it yet. It is extremely complicated with a very high learning curve and I don’t have the patience yet.
Here is a pic from the same model camera.
This is the international space station over Gros Morne last month
A feed of traditional fish and chips (fee and chee) with the cod I caught (only the fee pictured)
Fucking Obama themed travel center in Ireland lol
Some other pictures from that trip, most fun I’ve had in recent memory
This picture looks unimpressive without context, so here’s the backstory. My wife’s mother passed away last year and was cremated. She wanted to be spread at the beach, but it was the middle of January so they didn’t want to go into the water. The boat services that do the ash spreading were completely booked for the month, so I jokingly pitched the idea of making a potato gun, filling plastic easter eggs with her ashes, and shooting her into the water. I’ll be damned, they loved the idea, so I got to work.
I present to you,
The mother-in-launcher
