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The pictures here were all taken using various
pieces of the following equipment. Celestron c8 sct, Helios
130mm short tube newtonian , skywatcher 102mm refractor, long exposure modified philips 740k webcam sometimes attached to the telescope sometimes using a vivitar 70-150mm slr camera lens and a minolta dimage s414 digital camera. click on the pictures for more and better views. |
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Jupiter the largest planet (and easiest target)
is made of gas and is 142,884 km in diameter and
778,3000,000 km from the sun |
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Saturn the next largest planet has a diameter of 120,536 km and is 1,427,000,000 km from the sun |
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Mars the famous red planet is 6,794 km in diameter and 228,000,000 km from the sun |
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Uranus, diameter 51,118 km distance from the sun 5,900,000,000 km and a very long way from us. |
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The Moon nobody could miss it and a very easy target for pictures, you don't even need a telescope. |
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Deep space, very faint and sometimes very hard
to photograph all with distances measured in light years
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