i am looking forward to buy a 60mm refractor telescope but i don't know what saturn/jupiter will look like through the eyepiece.please provide some links which have the images taken with 60mm telescope.
2006-09-10 22:22:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In a 60mm refractor you will be able to view a few objects, Jupiter, Saturn, the moon, and some star clusters.
Imahes talen through a 60mm telescope will not represent what you will see through the eyepiece when you look. Today we have ways of enhancing images that allow a telescope to take images that show much finer detail then you will see when you look through the scope. As an example I have a 12" reflecting telescope. The last time Mars came close to the Earth I took many images and these photo looked much better then images taken from large observatories just 10 years ago. So don't trust images. Also DO NOT TRUST THE IMAGES ON THE SIDE OF THE BOX one telescope company had a lawsuite filed against it because the images did not even come close to what one would see at the eyepiece.
What a 60mm telescope will see.
Venus - You will see phases like the moon. The planet will look white with no texture or detail.
Mars - Small red dot the resolves to a disk. There is not enough appature in a 60mm to see and for the surface detail or polar cap.
Jupiter - You will see a small yellow dot, and maybe two bands through this dot. 4 for it's moons will also be visable though probably faint
Saturn - You will see the rings of Saturn. The planet and the rings will be the same color and you will see do detail in either the rings or planets globe.
Some of the brighter star clusters will also be visable.
What to look for in a 60mm telescope is #1 a 1.25" eyepiece focuser. This is so if you purchase additional eyepieces you will be able to use them when you upgrade scopes. #2 Make sure the mount is stable. A wobb;y tripod mount combination will cause much frustration ad probably turn you away from astronomy.
What I recommend to everyone looking at a "first" telescope is maybe to look at a 6" or 8" Dobson Reflector. These telescopes provide a great improvment in images yet they are very affordable. Per inch of appature refractors are the highest priced and relfectors of the lowest priced. So by looking at a reflector telescope you get more appture per dollar spent. The larger the appature, the more light you gather and the more detail you see.
2006-09-11 00:38:01 · answer #1 · answered by Scott A 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was unable to find any pictures of planets taken with a 60mm telescope. That is just too small a telescope for photographing planets. I have seen some pictures taken with 100mm telescopes, but they are nothing to write home about. With a 60mm, you will be able to see the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus, Craters on the Moon, Jupiter's 4 largest moons and perhaps some detail on the planet itself, but that is about it.
Check out this site for reviews of some small refractors. No pictures, but lots of good written material.
2006-09-11 04:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.caithness.org/nightsky/febmarch2006/index.htm
This link has some pictures through "a very small" scope. Taking good photos with a small scope can be difficult; the actual view through a small scope should be sharper and less fuzzy, as long as you don't push the magnification too high. Both Jupiter and Saturn can be much prettier than this photo, even in a small scope, but they may not show much more surface detail.
If you can save up enough money for an 80mm refractor, or a 4inch (100mm) or even 6inch (150mm) reflector, you'll see a lot more. A 60mm refractor on a good mount can be fun scope, but it's definitely a small scope.
2006-09-11 04:29:56 · answer #3 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and chance) can image information as small as a 10th of a millimeter on the exterior of Mars. for sure, they're on Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can image information as small as about a 1/2 meter from orbit. it truly is in Mars orbit. truly, that's a secret agent telescope in Mars orbit. those do a lot, a lot more desirable proper than the Hubble area Telescope for Mars. The HST has many of the proper decision of any telescope ever outfitted. the dual Keck telescopes, the quad VLT telescopes, the great Binocular Telescope are many of the large gadgets in the international. yet Very lengthy Baseline Interferometry does truly properly with decision contained in the radio spectrum. Mars is tiny compared to galaxies. it truly is about 0 gentle years in the technique. Our galaxy is one hundred,000 gentle years in the technique. it truly is how distant galaxies might want to be imaged so properly. My ten inch (254 mm) telescope may more desirable wholesome on your balcony. it truly is presently round $seven hundred US ($839 AUD). you're not from now on going to be in a position to make certain Apollo hardware on the Moon with it. presently no scope in the international can do this. yet, low magnification or severe, the images are sharp. you need to probably get your self to an astronomy club, and verify out scopes of diverse sizes. i love my 10 inch basically wonderful. yet i have regarded by 4 inch (one hundred mm) and 22 inch (558 mm) scopes too. So now i have were given some theory what to assume.
2016-11-26 00:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go 2 this link
http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/tele/tele_03.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/tele/tele.htm&h=794&w=634&sz=16&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=2aNuEeTOHZtN5M:&tbnh=143&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtelescope%26imgsz%3Dxxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
2006-09-11 00:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by mahesh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋