Using the Telescope

For Jeremy's birthday last month, I got him that telescope I blogged about earlier. I was really excited to get it for him and now I'm really glad that I did. It's been really fun to have and play around with. I'm not into astronomy, normally, but the views have been pretty amazing. Jer gets excited about it and that makes me get into it as well. So, the other night we had a beautiful, clear sky (which we've been having a lot of lately, and I'm very happy about it!) so Jeremy decided to bring it out. We got a great view of the moon right away and Jeremy thought he'd try to capture it on our camera. There is a fancy camera and stand and stuff you can buy to take pictures through your telescope, but we don't have any of that so we did it the other logical way...by simply putting our camera lens to the telescope lens. Imagine that! It worked! Well, kinda. It looked great through the scopes' lens, but wasn't always as clear once we took the shot. Oh well. It was fun to try! Well, here's some of the pictures we got. The first two are the moon (obviously), and the other one is actually Jupiter. We found Jupiter! Crazy, huh?

Moon

You see the details of it much better through the scope.

Jupiter

We know it 's Jupiter because if you look VERY closely, you can see it's 4 moons, two on each side. Actually, in this picture you can only really see one of the moons well. Also, through the scope, you can see its coloring and you can see that it has brownish rings around it. It was pretty cool!