Top 5 tips for improving planetary views with your telescope

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@calvinwon5113 3 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic information, especially for a beginner like myself. As a child, I always drooled over the telescopes in stores that were too expensive for my parents to even consider getting for me. Now at the age of 33, I am finally able to afford a basic reflector scope. Two nights ago, I saw Saturn’s rings for the first time in real life, and I almost shed some tears! I’ve seen countless images of planets. But there’s something different about seeing them in real life!

@juicebox9465 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing Saturn for the first time really is a spiritual experience, and something that words simply cannot comprehend, good luck and happy stargazing!

@nostradumbass4984 3 жыл бұрын

I think everyone who sees Saturn for the first time with their own eyes will never forget it!

@granthughes701 3 жыл бұрын

My family and I all clubbed together to get my dad a Sky-Watcher 130p for Christmas, he has always wanted one but would never buy himself one. We spend Christmas night looking at the Moon together, it was very cloudy but we still got some lovely images. His face is a memory I will never forget.

@melaniejenkins2754 2 жыл бұрын

I hear ya! FINALLY got my very own brand new outta box for Christmas. Years ago I was blessed to see the rings of Saturn & details on the moon 🤩😍

@certainpointofview3860 2 жыл бұрын

It’s because the images you’ve seen are cgi but your eyeball through the telescope is the real deal

@T.K.9 2 жыл бұрын

First day of buying my first ever 102mm Telescope. Very clear UK night, did see some stars and found out that the bright one near the moon was not a satellite but actually Jupiter. Then on my nightshift work break time, I watched this video. The next night I was off, I went out again armed by the info in this video. I finally was able to use the magnifications, focusing and changing barlows correctly! Saw the moon at max zoom with all its craters, Jupiter and its moons, Saturn and its rings, and more! I think this is one of the best video to watch if you are a beginner. Really really highly recommend this. Full of info to get you started correctly! In the end of watching, I had a paper of my calculations for my 102mm Celestron 😄 haha

@SuperLionlord 2 жыл бұрын

Same here lol I too at the end of watching this I had the calculations of my AZ 102 mm Celestron. So exciting as a beginner learning this information. It's been a week now into my new hobby.

@frst.4633 3 жыл бұрын

me, who can't even afford a Telescope: _aight bois, this is interesting.._

@thestellarcorpse 3 жыл бұрын

yes you can u can easily save up a lil and buy celestron astromaster 130eq

@stevenfoleyuk9404 3 жыл бұрын

@@thestellarcorpse are they good telescopes ?

@christio02 3 жыл бұрын

You could rather go for a dobsonian, pretty cheap with great aperture. Though manual tracking

@arjenbij 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenfoleyuk9404 I have it. I would recommend buying or making a dobsonian. There reallu is little use in an equatorial mount when doing visual observing. And the celestron is absolutely useless when it comes to astrophotography.

@kimbaldun 3 жыл бұрын

You can have *Our* Telescope comrade

@Healitnow 3 жыл бұрын

I went to my first star party in 1985 and bought my first telescope then. I decided to watch this video as a refresher and am pleased to say if any of you are newer to astronomy, this is the best, most complete video of practical accurate tips I have ever seen in one place. This is a bookmark and refer to when in need video for all of us.

@a01011900z 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent info in a short, to the point, video. I am looking at getting into the scene and this video has answered a lot of questions! cheers

@robertbowen9417 6 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your videos as I am 67 years old and decided to try to do a little photography again many anvances in the hobby

@AstronomyLiveChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Dear Sir, I took my second start in 40s and am concerned about the effect of ageing on dilation of pupil, as I can perceive the difference between what I can sense vis a vis what our kids can observe. I am afraid, my pupil is going no further than 6.5mm, thereby limiting the amount of light that I can get from our 16 inch telescope, because I am always constrained to use slightly higher magnification.

@dominusanuli3595 3 жыл бұрын

That means you're 69 now. Nice.

@radicallarry1006 3 жыл бұрын

@@dominusanuli3595 nice

@ahmadscientist6623 3 жыл бұрын

Wow ur 58 years older than me im 11

@deecross5028 3 жыл бұрын

I'm starting at 67, too! This is something I've wanted to do since 3rd grade.

@edwardbourke6376 5 жыл бұрын

Thank You Very Much GREAT TIPS. Just beginning in this field. It started for me in Vietnam. At night I would always look at the sky and say," My love and I can see the same stars." My way of saying good night to her.

@freddiespencer927 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping this video up after all this time. It's extremely informative and very helpful, being new to the field. Great work!

@BurningSky93 10 жыл бұрын

Good points that not everyone might have considered. Keep up the good work (and I would love to see more regular uploads from you guys)!

@555atU 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a beginner and this was the most valuable lesson I've watched so far. Big THANK YOU!

@JohnS916 9 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, one of the best I've seen, understandable, concise and hits the main points for planetary viewing.

@lincoln3x7 3 жыл бұрын

This is great info for beginners and those of us who have been "trying" for a while. Ive watched a lot of how to videos and really appreciate your explanation for how to calculate max magnification. Cheers

@farrjarr 5 жыл бұрын

This is just what I needed. Great advice. Many thanks.

@mrmusdtard2 9 жыл бұрын

A huge thank you one of the best video's I have ever seen Brian

@123reivax123 2 ай бұрын

This channel has consistently brilliant content. Much admired, recommended and missed.

@ronaldwest2264 5 жыл бұрын

Very good Sir. I will check my collimation more often. Thank you.

@deanmindock3680 3 жыл бұрын

Lots of practical info with no sales pitches. Thank you.

@DavidMFChapman 7 жыл бұрын

For any telescope, if you use an eyepiece with a focal length (in mm) equal to the f/ratio, the magnification is equal to the aperture (in mm). For example, your 80 mm refractor with 900 mm focal length is f/11 (close enough), so an 11 mm eyepiece gives you 80X. Add a 2X Barlow and you're at the maximum magnification for that telescope. It's just another way of reckoning that I like.

@Tap-in-Dab-In-Up Жыл бұрын

Where do i buy high quality lens & especially 45° prism things biggest n bestest what ever u think I'll take

@Bob-tw4eb 7 жыл бұрын

thanks so much. I have the nexstar 6se and this proved useful!

@duanedouglas7602 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining that. No one else has explained it that way before I really appreciate all the time you gave to us thank you

@martynh5410 3 жыл бұрын

Found that my new 8” SCT was just slightly off on collimation. Took me a while to tweak it in but now it’s good! That alone made a difference. I have a new star diagonal on order along with eyepieces that are likely to be better than the ones that come with the scope. At least the new eyepieces will be easier to use as they have much more eye relief!

@johnbarry5036 6 жыл бұрын

great great advice towards the end, some I had not thought of

@PeterC3400 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for making these videos.

@wezil68s 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks again! I really enjoy this channel!

@xsauce3858 7 жыл бұрын

I DO TOO

@nagybogoslofasz 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great advice

@themainediverschannel4495 4 жыл бұрын

You sir you have explained the math and formulas on power and lenses that I for the first time can understand and do the math myself in all the years of having astronomy as a hobby. Being dislexic and adhd made it impossible, so I thought, that I'd never understand the math. I have subscribed to your channel and have been made so happy today in seeing "more" out of astronomy that I longed for all these years besides just "seeing threw the lens".

@dhollsynthmusic 6 жыл бұрын

i think i learnt at least 3 new things in this video...thanks for helping us beginners!

@theblueo1 5 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate these videos. Astronomy has been an interest for me for along time, and with your help I've been able to dive right in as an adult with money to spend lol. Thank you!

@DRPowell 4 жыл бұрын

Rasta - Same here. I’ve been watching these videos for days. I had been considering buying a scope for a while and just happened to find an iOptron 80mm refractor on a SmartStar mount for $60 at a thrift store. I was watching the moon rise that first night and a few star clusters but was limited to only one 25mm eyepiece. I saw Jupiter and several of its moons (a large bright dot and four smaller dots) and even saw Saturn but it only looked like a yellowish football. I quickly decided I wanted more, and a Meade ETX-90 came home. Still wanted more. Now i have a Celestron 130 with eyepiece and filter kit but no stars tonight. Hopefully things clear up for astronomy club “open to public” gathering tomorrow night in park.

@AbyssinianEmerald 5 жыл бұрын

Very good tips - thank you so much for sharing!

@UltraV13 5 жыл бұрын

Mostly very good useful tips, with one exception: I heard that tip about resting the filter over the eyepiece years ago; when I tried it I lost my filter & never found it, wouldn't really recommend that, but they will screw onto some barlows or like you said diagonals.

@kohertion 10 жыл бұрын

Very informative video, thanks. You videos have turned me from a beginner to an amateur. Keep up the great work.

@xsauce3858 7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@TheCatholicRemedy 4 жыл бұрын

do you know what amateur means

@oujikei 4 жыл бұрын

I’m laughing so much

@codawoods1978 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCatholicRemedy I may be wromg, but im thinking thats the joke. I'm gullible as well.

@j4kke29 3 жыл бұрын

I just got a Celestron Starsense Explorer dx130AZ, this is a very helpfull and well explained video even 7 years later. I had no idea you should acclimatise your scope. Thank you very much.

@huf67 4 жыл бұрын

"Close enough for government work" ... Classic !!

@Maxyshadow 4 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant explanation! Thank you.

@ddingus2254 6 жыл бұрын

Good video. Thanks for taking the time

@josephimbesi5584 7 жыл бұрын

Great tips Mr Dalby. Especially the one on elevation of object above the horizons effect on image quality, and poor diagonals degrading the image

@ILoveGodsWord413 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you!

@esmeraldaherrera6608 6 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video. Thank you so much!

@Healitnow 3 жыл бұрын

I have just recently upgraded my star diagonal and the effect was roughly a doubling of the image quality. I was surprised but pleased and am now enjoying a scope I had actually some regrets about buying. It made that much difference.

@paulzeev 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of Telescope ?

@jjbuu3560 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

@JordanDeanGoT 9 жыл бұрын

Very helpful, thanks.

@nickmaclean5816 8 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying this channel. Makes me feel a bit at home too as I lived in Norwich for a couple of years! Thanks a lot, will keep on following.

@irlgregpaul1468 5 жыл бұрын

Nick Maclean norwich

@johndangelo3989 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Your video is excellent! I really enjoyed the explanation of how to reduce problems with the image by being careful of what you are looking over! Your Discussion of lens designs, focal lengths, and the use of a Barlow are spot on. Nice work!

@malquezare 4 жыл бұрын

Great. Thanks to share your know-how with us. I did manual colimation and it works very well. I could see Júpiter and hus moons and Saturn and moons and rings for the first time, was astonished! Thanks again, greetings from Brazil, São Paulo

@twhite19782012 4 жыл бұрын

This really was extremely helpful. Thank you.

@kyleb209 4 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful. Thank you.

@ronhill5964 8 жыл бұрын

excellent THANK YOU!!! I have been observing Jupiter at the wrong angle for days wonder WTH is wrong with my 10 inch Dob,. what a relief to know its not my scope.... it the operator. lol

@omgitzcaleb1919 4 жыл бұрын

I just bought the 10" dob, and i read your comment wrong the first time. scared the crap out of me lol

@combofriend4461 4 жыл бұрын

What is it? Is this the "on opposition" thing?

@gameseeker6307 3 жыл бұрын

Did you guys order them and if you did, how? I want to purchase the "Tx8", just to look around the galaxy

@AJeazy 3 жыл бұрын

@@gameseeker6307 I just got the 8 inch dob in time for warmer weather hopefully from optcorp website. You can also use the code welcome20 to get 20 bucks off so its only 425 dollars for an 8 inch aperature telescope. Good deal.

@jpscharged 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah just got a used 10” dob and even from 35-80 degrees is a big difference.

@Sill3r_96 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! Very useful video. Liked and subscribed.

@UKmarkj 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the tips!

@bobbya8622 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the good and useful knowledge you’ve shared!

@halder801 5 жыл бұрын

Great tips. Thank you alot

@garygullikson6349 5 жыл бұрын

Very good video for beginning backyard astronomers. Includes choices and types of eyepieces, not over powering with too short eyepieces and viewing objects overhead instead of nearer the horizon, letting telescope cool before observing, etc.

@OttawaySteam 8 ай бұрын

Very helpful. Thanks so much. I never understood until now why I needed to know why I needed to calculate the focal length and eyepiece ratio. You made it make sense.

@cezarlima6359 6 жыл бұрын

Very clear explanation ! Thank you

@TheStevecas9860 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert this is the best tutorial vid I have ever seen

@LynxStarAuto 5 жыл бұрын

Spot on friend. My star diag had an imperfection. I purchased a new one, and light years better quality. Excuse the pun

@pacificsun4379 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Really useful

@SW-zx3op 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for creating this video and sharing you knowledge on telescopes, it was very helpful in aiding me in understand telescope equipment so I can make a informed purchase.

@StormsandSaugeye 4 жыл бұрын

One thing I did to improve the quality of a 76 mm reflector telescope was invest in a 125 dollar adjustable lens with a 60 degree field of view. It wasn't much in terms of changes but it allowed me to actually begin seeing things rather than fight with a pinhole lens that came with the telescope (In all fairness, the scope only cost like 50 dollars and was on sale from 99). It allowed me to actually get a good view (For the reflectivity) of the Orion Nebula and to begin resolving some details of the Pleiades

@fouloleron2002 10 жыл бұрын

Good solid advice.

@linhvienthai7591 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great advice. Very good information that's extremely valuable.

@bassinbob1965 4 жыл бұрын

FINALLY!! I have found someone who explained these topics in a way that I could understand them. Watch this video if you are trying to understand the basics of telescope theory. I promise you won't regret it and help the gentleman out by liking and subscribing since he's taken his time to make and post this video. I'm sure it took longer to make and post this video than it would take us to click the mouse a few times. Thanks Robert for dedicating your personal time to teach us about this fantastic subject.

@nchtdiemama7267 3 жыл бұрын

Whow! I found your channel, coming back to astronomie after 25 years. Now I have time to watch the sky as long I wish.

@rauladdams5709 3 жыл бұрын

You Sir, are a Saint. ❤ Incredibly Helpful! 👍 Thanks so much!

@imafraidofclowns740 7 жыл бұрын

Great channel...Thank you.

@UTubeSL 2 жыл бұрын

That was simply amazingly helpful. Thank you!

@usernamemykel 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent!!

@Dutch_Prepper 3 жыл бұрын

This video is gold, for a beginner like me. Thanks !

@Rico-Suave_ 4 жыл бұрын

great video, thank you

@MilanKarakas 6 жыл бұрын

Great video. Many people are not aware that one arc second is about 1 mm at 200 meters distance.

@1959Berre 4 жыл бұрын

0.9696273622190719871798282047159... mm :)

@willmoran5694 4 жыл бұрын

Do you mind explaining what this means to a beginner?

@Loonistrator 4 жыл бұрын

@@willmoran5694 An arc second is a measure of angle. One arc minute is 1/60 of a degree, and one arc second is 1/60 of that. Imagine a pie and divide it into 360 slices, each slice is one degree. Now divide each slice 60 times, and each resulting slice is one arc minute. Divide each of those slices 60 times and each resulting slice is now one arc second. Your pie has been divided into 1,296,000 slices, incidentally. Of course, a pie is much simpler than the sky as it's only sliced in one spacial dimension, but it makes for easier visualization of the concept. In astronomy angular measurement is used to denote apparent size of an object; that is to say how big something appears to be from our viewing point. The further away it is, the smaller it's going to appear. If you lined yourself up so you are facing the leftmost extent of an object and rotated yourself until you were facing the rightmost extent, the amount you had to rotate would give you the apparent size of that object. Since everything in space is generally very very very far away, this amount will usually be tiny, within the realms of the arc second. For the example the OP gives, an object 1mm in size 200 meters away from you would have an apparent size of 1 arc second. A basket ball about 800 meters away from you would be about 1 arc minute. The moon's apparent size is about 30 arc minutes.

@BillSikes. 4 жыл бұрын

@@Loonistrator Great explanation, thanks 👍

@beautyinpeace 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent vidoe. So much information so easily explained. Learnt just so much from this video.

@3334alfieslater 10 жыл бұрын

The best on the net

@victormaratovich7412 2 жыл бұрын

That's how it's done! Thank you very much for a very informative video. I'm going out to buy my first telescope.

@codycevering2733 4 жыл бұрын

Good tips, thank you for sharing.

@Trailertrasher 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@briankruse3584 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tips

@dawslammernz 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much learnt a lot.

@thedigitalidiot 6 жыл бұрын

Great video - I'm an amateur and bought a cheap telescope. Your video has explained a bunch of stuff I had no idea about :)

@mikejung3908 4 ай бұрын

Lost you guys for a few years, so glad to have found you again.

@johannesofner2954 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir, very well explained and helpful!

@tonyarmstrong6723 8 жыл бұрын

thanx for not making it simple , to get started. going to do this now!!

@JeffStuart1 9 жыл бұрын

Very good Thank you.

@TheLostHistoryChannelTKTC 10 жыл бұрын

Great video..

@rustyshackleford2185 6 жыл бұрын

The Lost History Channel TKTC hey what are you doing here ...lol i love your channel! 💪

@renbooth4147 10 жыл бұрын

good tips thank you

@normandanao4774 Жыл бұрын

very good orator speaker thank you, at my age so difficult to understand sometimes people speaking gibberish at 200 kph. I recently reopened my ETX 105 to enjoy with the new family. Forgot so much and 15 yrs of being in a box lots of maintenance was required and looking into upgrades to improve our experience. thank you for your formulas they will be of value to us. We're so excited we ordered another ETX 125 so all can enjoy

@maskim3 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks thanks thanks !! 🙏

@justgjt 6 жыл бұрын

Great valuable info and no bloody commercials / ads. Do you happen to have a .pdf with all the recommendations available. Thanks for putting this video together. Much appreciated.

@deecross5028 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I really enjoyed this. I feel like I got a lot more than 5 tips. I especially like the fact that you took you time explaining math to "math-impaired" me. Now that I understand the math, I'll try my 9mm to see the planets instead of just seeing more lights in the sky.