Pictures on December 19th
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 12/19/2020, 9:15 pm
I didn't get pictures as good tonight. I tried using a telescope I never learned to operate and I gave up. Binoculars are hard to steady. Someone using them might want to lean them on something if they try using them. I went back to my 50x optical camera. (with digital zoom out to 200x)

Saturn:



Saturn at top. Jupiter and 3 of its moons (very faint to upper left of Jupiter) at bottom:



Never have figured out how to get a better picture of Jupiter. It's always a white dot. If I have the exposure time a lot less, then you can't see it very well.

Will be cloudy tomorrow, with rain, but will be pretty clear on Monday when they are closest.

One issue with getting pictures is that at 200x zoom, this is what happens when you take pictures 1 second apart:



I tried taking a sequence of 10 images, automatically 1 second apart, with an exposure of 0.5 seconds, and here is the result between two of the images at the end of the sequence. They move so fast when you are zoomed in that close. The camera was steady on the tripod. It wasn't until the 4th image in the 10 image sequence that Saturn was fully in the picture.
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