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Jupiter

So I got to borrow a telescope and the viewing was excellent Sunday evening.

 

The camera to telescope mount I purchased was technically not a prime focus tube (which turns the telescope into a giant telephoto lense), but I was able to approximate a prime focus lense by using a barlow tube instead of the prime focus tube. The connector I received was actually designed to accept eyepieces which then project the image onto the camera sensor.

 

Either process worked, but both had drawbacks. The "sort of" prime focus method I used resulted in the achromatic discoloring as seen in the blue and reds around the edges of jupiter in the above picture.

 

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Uploaded on September 2, 2008
Taken on August 30, 2008