It had been a while I bought a couple of telescopes but I had not used it outdoors yet. I had been using them only from my building terrace which is full of light pollution. I wanted to go out , at least with the small table top telescope. With encouragement from couple of my …
Tag Archive: Jupiter
Astrophotography with Point and Shoot Camera
Place the mouse pointer over the image to see the consterlation lines and labels I recently tried to click some celestial picture with my new Sony Cyber-Shot Hx9V. Taking snaps of stars and planets is really challenging because very less amount of light reaches us and the lights generated from earth (specially at urban locations) …
Telescope under urban night sky
I recently posted about my new telescope.I watched the moon (Photos posted in that same blog) first. It was a full moon and craters were easily visible with my 20 mm eyepiece ( 45x magnification ).With this magnification moon was just covered by the viewing area which is about 1 degree in diameter. (Orion‘s belt is 3 degree’s …
Jupiter’s Moon
Using 70mm Binocular , The star 20 Psc is confusing with Callisto (Both 6th Magnitude and same distance from Jupiter ) but "Io" and "Ganymede" constructs the line which distinguishes "Callisto" as Jupiter’s moon ref: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Jupiter+7%3A43+pm+30+DEC+2010+from+hyderabad For individual stats of Galileo moons http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Ganymede
Its “The time of the year” again
Exactly a couple of years back I posted http://neilghosh.com/2008/11/15/significance-of-birthday/ saying about the reason why Birthdays does not really have anything to to your behavior. Recently I spotted two very important objects in the sky with my new Celestron 15×70 Binoculars. Even though these are supposed to be visible in naked eye in a very dark …
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