Webcam attached to Bresser telescope Messier NT-150S
planets
Saturn shot – Part 2
Another shot of Saturn taken from my garden in SW London.
Another shot of Saturn
Pattern generated by Orbiter App
Just put in the data and let it go. Looks pretty sweet I thought.
The Moon Timelapse
The Moon
On the way home from work I was disheartened to see the clouds rolling in. That said I was able to find a few breaks in the cloud to get a few snaps of The Moon which was extremely bright last night. Almost too bright to get a nice photo. That said, my real target was Jupiter. She is highly visible in the UK skies at the moment at very sociable hours too.
I had taken apart my Logitech C910 Webcam and fixed it to a camera film case in order to slot it into the telescope view finder however I was unable to get any useful looking photographs. I will have to spend some time trying to configure the thing, to focus is correctly. Unfortunately the weather meant I didn’t have too long, so the shots below are merely taken holding an iPhone to the lens with a [not always] steady hand.
The last photograph is Jupiter, again with the iPhone. You can just about make out a couple of it’s Moons close by. I could make out the patterns on the surface of the planet, but, predictably, this is not possible with a shaky hand holding a mobile device. The webcam is coming though!
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- The Moon as seen from SW19, UK on 06/12/2012
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- Edge shot of The Moon
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- The Moon – Close up edge shot.
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- Jupiter with a shakey hand
Scale Solar System
A fun application showing the planets of the solar system in scale, using a bit of Box2D for the hell of it. Check the size of the sun!
Scale Solar System
http://www.pldm.co.uk/solarsystem/Main.swf
I couldn’t find an interactive correct scale solar system anywhere. So I built one. Not finished yet. Lots more plans for it. If the imagery upsets anyone, please let me know and I’ll delete them. I found all the images via a google image search.
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