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I saw Mars and Jupiter up close with some cheap Celestron Binoculars on a tripod. Could see 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter lined up nicely like tiny white dots.
by noipv4 4y ago
I saw Mars and Jupiter up close with some cheap Celestron Binoculars on a tripod. Could see 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter lined up nicely like tiny white dots.
- trhway 4y agoWhen I looked first time through telescope at the brightest "star" and saw another 4 smaller "stars" perfectly aligned with it I had a "WTF wrong with this Universe?" moment before realizing it was Jupiter :)
- dylan604 4y agoPretty much what Galileo and those that came first probably thought too.
- em-bee 4y agoi discovered this by chance some time last year. being in a city those were the only things visible besides a few other stars, so that line spreading over half the sky really stood out. it was only 3 visible planets and the moon, although pluto was in there too, just not bright enough. obviously not as impressive as the current view, but although i had an interest in watching stars already a few decades earlier it was the first time i noticed that this was happening, and it made me feel much closer to our solar system. i was looking up there and thought: wow, this is my neighboorhood. this is home.
- JacobThreeThree 4y agoI lived for a year in a university apartment for faculty with my father, who was a prof. At the top of the residence building was an observatory with a 10" telescope, now upgraded to 16". As a kid living there I was often hanging around the building and if the telescope was being operated, sometimes they would let you look, or pick out fun targets to look at. I'll never forget the first times seeing Saturn and Jupiter. https://www.brandonu.ca/observatory/gallery/ https://www.brandonu.ca/observatory/gallery/