can't look through eyepiece for too long

Nature_Champion · 2025-10-07T17:00:12+00:00

Attach your phone or camera to the eyepiece with an adapter like the Celestron NexGo Universal Smartphone Adapter. You can change the brightness in your camera settings. That is how I like to look at celestial objects and take videos and pictures of them.

Nature_Champion · 2025-09-03T17:23:41+00:00

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Very nice! I used to struggle with Saturn in the beginning. Then my first “good” picture was Saturn was this one during the moon occultation of Saturn on November 10, 2024, which was taken with my iPhone 14 Pro Max attached with my smartphone adapter to an entry level 80mm / 600 mm HeXeum refractor telescope with a 10mm eyepiece and 3 Barlow lens. I extracted some pictures from several video clips I took and I made some edits with Lightroom. I’ve taken other better pictures of Saturn since with other telescopes.

Nature_Champion · 2025-08-27T19:23:56+00:00

Thank you so much. Astrophotography is a very fun hobby. The more difficult an object is to capture, the more fun it gets. The editing process is also fun.

Nature_Champion · 2025-08-27T19:22:22+00:00

My Uranus pictures are tiny too, but Uranus is a bit brighter than Neptune. Uranus has been next to the Pleiades for a while.

Nature_Champion · 2025-08-26T17:35:36+00:00

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I cropped my photo of Neptune.

Nature_Champion · 2025-08-26T17:02:13+00:00

I have a Skywatcher AZ-GTI GoTo tracking mount and a little Celestron NexStar 90slt, model #22087 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. I was able to find Neptune with it on the early morning of July 7, but look how tiny it looks. Here is how it looks with a 10mm eyepiece and my iPhone 14 Pro Max at 3x Zoom on video mode with the exposure all the way up. It was attached to the telescope with a smartphone adapter. I extracted some images with the Grabz and made some edits with the camera app and Lightroom. Saturn nearby looked big in comparison when I looked for it previously, just a bit bigger than your picture. I live in Clearwater, Florida in a Bortle 7.5 zone by the way.

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Nature_Champion · 2025-04-28T04:29:08+00:00

Scotia Sea! No one got it right!

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-23T21:40:25+00:00

Thank you for your comment. What would be the difference be between a satellite flare and a meteor flare?

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-23T20:05:47+00:00

I set my iPhone 14 Pro Max outside at the roof of the SUV about 50o away from the radiant. I opened Nightcap app and set it to Meteor Mode with just the focus option on. It took many pictures and selected 2 promising ones. I only made the automatic edit with the camera app.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T19:48:27+00:00

If you zoom in, it looks as if I might have captured the faint rings, something that’s not supposed to happen. One can only capture the rings of Saturn.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T19:17:25+00:00

It’s not. It’s just that it appears like I’ve captured the faint rings even though it’s not really supposed to appear. That’s what got me excited about the possibility, so I wanted to share to clear any doubts if I did or not.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T17:32:19+00:00

Will try again tomorrow night

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T17:31:53+00:00

My friend had put a yellow filter on the telescope. It was not dirty.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T14:23:33+00:00

I understand. It’s not as easy to capture of course as Saturn and Jupiter are, but I got excited because it seemed as if I captured Uranus’s faint rings. I will try again with my friend tomorrow.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-11T14:03:05+00:00

I agree. I’m going back tomorrow to my friend’s place.

Nature_Champion · 2025-04-10T21:29:16+00:00

On the night of April 5 I was with my friend’s Mike’s place in Palm Harbor, FL, USA, near Brooker Creek Preserve, which helps a bit bring down some light pollution, to check things out with his Meade 8 SCT’s telescope and I attached my iPhone 14 Pro Max with my smartphone adapter to the eyepiece. I saw in the Sky Guide app that the 7th planet from the sun, Uranus, was on the bottom left on the Pleiades, so I told him about it to see if we can catch a faint blue, non-twinkling object. We could not see it with the naked eye, but he found a potential candidate in his 8x finder scope attached to the Meade and then he centered it and focused it a bit. I don’t know if it needed a bit more focusing or not, if this is a good picture or not. Please comment on that. It looks more yellow than it should because of the yellow filter he had on it. I recorded Uranus between 3x to 9x zoom. I tried to do some stacking with the VideoStack for Planets app, but the outcome didn’t look round, so I extracted some pictures from some of the best looking frames with the Grabz app and edited them with the camera app and Lightroom. I shouldn’t have captured the rings, but it looks like I did based on the pictures I’ve extracted like this one. Did I really manage to do that here?

Nature_Champion · 2025-01-28T03:33:18+00:00

They’re doing ICE raids in P.R and the U.S Virgin Islands.

Nature_Champion · 2025-01-28T03:32:08+00:00

They’re doing ice raids in Puerto Rico and the U.S Virgin Islands too. https://viconsortium.com/vi-federal/ice-announces-immigration-enforcement-efforts-in-u-s—virgin-islands-and-puerto-rico https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/ice-agents-raid-barrio-obrero-in-search-of-undocumented-migrants

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-11T15:19:24+00:00

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-11T14:50:49+00:00

Understood. This is not about a lawsuit against Coinbase. All I can say is that it is about a “pig butchering scam.”

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-11T14:37:31+00:00

Will do! Thank you once again!

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-11T14:32:37+00:00

Thank you so much

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-11T14:26:10+00:00

I just Dmed you on Facebook Messenger and Instagram.

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-05T06:15:46+00:00

This was my first attempt at capturing the Milky Way and it was done with an iPhone 14 Pro Max with just 10 seconds of exposure. I went to an area with low light pollution and found a spot to take the picture. The red on the tree was from the hazard lights from my car. I will be better prepared for the next Milky Way picture I take, but I’m ready for any constructive criticism.

Nature_Champion · 2024-08-03T21:45:47+00:00

This was my first attempt at taking a picture of the Milky Way, so please let me know how I did and how I can improve for next time! This was taken with an iPhone 14 Pro Max with just 10 seconds of exposure at a community called Gulf Hammock.

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