I remember back in 1989, Saturn passing right in front of a star. Quite amazing to see that star shine through the rings! It makes you appreciate how fast some planets move compared to sidereal time. No wonder your tracking of Mars is difficult.
That's an amazing scope. Can see some insane detail on Jupiter. I would recommend getting a ZWO 290MM, I noticed a huge improvement in detail and noise reduction on planet imaging when I went to monochrome from my 462mc. Of course you have to get the LRGB filters and filter wheel, but it's definitely worth it. Especially with 11" of aperture.
I did actually do some testing with the 290mm and the LRGB, but i found it to be not that much better and alot more fuss than using a color camera, so i've stuck with the color route for now.
Omg your set up is amazing😭😭 I live on top of this isolated mountain with no light pollution with my little 70mm 😂😂 but I can see plenty!❤❤ happy sky watching!
@@chillsaber5305 I am working on getting a few things for astro photography..then I'll be happy to show you! I can see pretty good with it..I can see some details on Jupiter and sometimes the red spot..Jupiters moons..saturn and her rings but its pretty tiny in the scope lol..I can see a few nebulae but mostly just white light..Mars just looks like a round red ball lol the 70s are pretty decent for the price..I can see all kinds of details on the moon with it
@@chillsaber5305 awesome!! I would love to build my own..thats amazing! I'll be honest I am a complete newbie and don't know many terms and stuff..I am learning as I go..I just have the one that came with the scope right now..its an Orion..Im def gonna upgrade my equipment as I am able to..I wanted to start with something a little cheaper..one because I have an 8 year old and don't have tons of free cash and 2 because I have no idea what I'm doing 😂😂😂
Astronomically Speaking yeah. I have an 8SE mounted on an AVX with an ASI224 and the same Celestron Barlow. I use a hyperstar for deep sky. Our setups are quite similar.
@@jujubean7664 Yeah my first newer scope in 2018 was the 8SE, a very solid scope. I do enjoy the hyperstar. I now have an advanced 1.8-2.5x barlow i've been testing along with a flip mirror, working on fine tuning that plus an asi290mm for mono planetary and a filter wheel, the last two are a whole new world for me.
Dang! Im not too familiar with telescopes, but that stuff has to be the most impressive setup i have seen so far. Even have that little "observatory building", LOL! Pretty cool
You have an awesome, center. I'm planning to set up something like you have. Could you give some advise on software and so on. You have an incredible video. Congratulations.
Thanks for a great video. Could you share some details please about your dome / observatory? Thanks. I would like something similar but am not sure where to begin!!
Thanks for watching. I have a few videos on the actual dome build and setup. There is also a link to the article/blog version with some more details there.
You might find that you cant use the Ioptron mount software and Fire capture software at the same time if you don't load them both in "administrator mode" on windows. this enables the system to multiple programmes to use the driver at the same time. I hope this helps.
Thanks for this tip, ill try this out when i get back to planetary in a month or so. There is always a lag using the firecapture mount / tracking feature if I uncheck it, to being able to use the ioptron software arrows. Hopefully admin on both is the trick.
Haha. Yes, photos from NASA are much sharper. This is the challenge of the hobby to try to see how you can do, however, depending on where you are located and how high the target is, planetary can be quite challenging. Next year in my area Jupiter will be quite high, so i'm looking forward to revisiting things. Thanks for watching
Great video Mark. I would love to dive into planetary at some point. I’d like to get an edge 14” for the task and play with hyperstar on that monster too.
Thanks, planetary is fun. Ill have a bunch more to add in coming videos with some changes i've made. The edge 14 is on my radar some day, envy that one a bit, though the 11 is quite capable.
I have almost exactly the same set up (getting set up). Question: Did you care about back focus? Does it matter ? Mine is about 162.1 mm and looks almost exactly like yours. The only difference is mine is a tele vu 2X Barlow. Ideal back focus for the Edge 11 is reportedly 146.05 mm. I can make mine smaller and fuss with it, but yours is obviously working. So. Not sure it’s worth worrying about. What are your thoughts ?
Thanks for watching, i believe thats the SCT to 1.25" reducer/T-adapter. I think that came with the scope originally. I dug around online and cant seem to find a part number however.
I'm Antonio from Italy, i have the telescope "Skywatcher heritage" 130/650 with parabolic mirror high quality. And one sorrow news.... In the future the red spot on Jupiter vanish
Awesome set up! I rather much view through the telescope with my eyes than viewing it through a camera! To Me, viewing through a camera is no different than just watching a video of the plants on RUclips . Its more special when its your eyes actually seeing it.
Yep, I still do that every now and then. Also have a vixen flip mirror to allow both at the same time. Generally its not just viewed through the camera though, you have to keep recording to get many many frames then process those, makes for a fun challenge all in itself.
Beautiful scope !! I have a question ? When you get that resolution right, and it's on the screen, if you look at it through the actual scope lens , is it the same view ?
No not at all, that's why the computer program is there. If not his hobby would be boring after about a year. Fuzzy circles in the sky aren't that much fun to watch.
Yeah unfortunately the visual view or optical view is much smaller, even less detailed. But there is still good fun in doing some visual observing once in awhile.
@@AstronomicallySpeaking less detailed is the understatement of a lifetime. I've viewed the Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars through a 8" mead. And you cant make out much of anything definitive except jupiters extremely fuzzy eye, Saturn's rings reflecting just as bright as the body which I always found curious as to how that's possible given its allegedly reflected light, and Mars never appeared quite the same at all. That program you run is designed to fool you into a belief system that doesnt correspond with reality. I hope you figure out this truth one day soon.
Par contre si il fait une vidéo de la lune , par pleine lune . Tu devrais avoir une vidéo de très bonne qualité sans retouche en direct. Le c11 c'est cher mais de très bonne qualité.
I wonder if these bigger SCT´s are optimized using them for imaging or non-imaging use ? Does aperture show you more with the naked eye or primarily by using some sort of camera setup ? Could a 14 inch goto dob do the job if visual use is preferred ?
Well, they always say aperture is king. I had gone from an 8" sct to 11", i forget the exact math but i want to say visual or not it was about a 30% gain in aperture. You can see quite a bit just visually even with the 8" or my 11", I still do some visual now and then.
@@AstronomicallySpeaking I'm thinking of getting a 9.25, and given my long-held interest in photography, using the telescope for astrophotopgraphy is almost certainly where my interest will lie. With that said, is it worth investing in a wide range of eyepieces if 95% of the use is going to be for photography? Going the Tele Vue or even ES route for eyepieces can add up if you're looking to get 4 - 5 eyepieces to cover everything you might need, and I'm wondering if it might not make more sense to simply get something like a Hyperion zoom for occasional visual use?
The 11 was a great leap from the 8, much better at light collecting. I had already sold the 8", though part of me wishes i still had it for portable trips to darker skies, but I dont usually do those anymore with the automation now. More convenient. I actually have some envy for a 14", so one day may upgrade.
i got to the opening credits.. i had to stop. we are brothers seperated at birth apparently... Flight simulator, astrophotography rig these are the man cave items that speak to me... also your computer could use some dusting.🤣😂
I guess you can't do anything about memory leaks on your computer but hope for the best hardware and registered memory...A big motherboard to spread components and avoid interference.... Errors in Windows and also memory leaks in the software ( a little on the beta side )... All you can do is hope for the best!.... That is why some people like some other operating systemsTHAT is the wholly grail of sane computing.... Also can see the diffraction caused by plastic lenses in the optics of the telescope or camera lens ( refractive index of the best plastic lenses = 46 ... cheapest glass lens refractive index = 56 ... A whole 10% sharper on a single piece add more plastic lenses and the sharpness goes down hill ).... Then is the quality and the size of the camera sensor, the bigger the sensor, the better the resolution, intead of 8 bits how about 12, 14, and higher color resolution.... I guess we play with what we have!...
11:00 This guy goes to Photoshop and digitally re-touches his images. This is not photography. You are not representing anything real. Total fabrication and nonsense.
To bring out the details, the data needs to be processed. No earth based telescope could resolve that level of detail without lucky imaging and wavelets.
Yes, photos from NASA are much sharper. This is the challenge of the hobby to try to see how you can do, however, depending on where you are located and how high the target is, planetary can be quite challenging. Next year in my area Jupiter will be quite high, so i'm looking forward to revisiting things. Thanks for watching
Why can't you tune your telescope without having to get the image processed by a program... seems pretty fishy too me. Every unprocessed picture of all the planets look nothing like what these programs pop out... what a joke
@@tcherinothebamino8833 Jupiter is rotating so fast, so you can't take long exposures. That's why you have to take hundreds of short exposure photos and you stack photos to obtain all the information from each photo that are missing from each photo to create 1 photo. It's different when you can view it from your own telescope and photo what you are seeing. It's like watching a football game or playing a football game. Playing is going to be much funnier even though it's not as good as the professional game.
I remember back in 1989, Saturn passing right in front of a star. Quite amazing to see that star shine through the rings! It makes you appreciate how fast some planets move compared to sidereal time. No wonder your tracking of Mars is difficult.
This Celestron Edge 11 has the BEST, most powerful resolution I have ever seen
then you need to "get out more"
I don't understand a single thing you are doing, but I am subscribing to find out more in the next video. Thanks for making this
OMG what a beast! You must spent a fortune on that telescope.
Great Captures. Nice Details On Planet's Do Capture Mars As it's past Opposition
Clear Skies ✨🌌
That's an amazing scope. Can see some insane detail on Jupiter.
I would recommend getting a ZWO 290MM, I noticed a huge improvement in detail and noise reduction on planet imaging when I went to monochrome from my 462mc.
Of course you have to get the LRGB filters and filter wheel, but it's definitely worth it. Especially with 11" of aperture.
I did actually do some testing with the 290mm and the LRGB, but i found it to be not that much better and alot more fuss than using a color camera, so i've stuck with the color route for now.
This Celestron Edge 11 is a real planet-killer!
Mind-blowing setup!! Kudos
Thanks for watching.
Omg your set up is amazing😭😭 I live on top of this isolated mountain with no light pollution with my little 70mm 😂😂 but I can see plenty!❤❤ happy sky watching!
Thanks :) Sounds like a great location for viewing compared to the suburbs. Thanks for watching.
@@chillsaber5305 I am working on getting a few things for astro photography..then I'll be happy to show you! I can see pretty good with it..I can see some details on Jupiter and sometimes the red spot..Jupiters moons..saturn and her rings but its pretty tiny in the scope lol..I can see a few nebulae but mostly just white light..Mars just looks like a round red ball lol the 70s are pretty decent for the price..I can see all kinds of details on the moon with it
@@chillsaber5305 awesome!! I would love to build my own..thats amazing! I'll be honest I am a complete newbie and don't know many terms and stuff..I am learning as I go..I just have the one that came with the scope right now..its an Orion..Im def gonna upgrade my equipment as I am able to..I wanted to start with something a little cheaper..one because I have an 8 year old and don't have tons of free cash and 2 because I have no idea what I'm doing 😂😂😂
So cool 🦖 thanks for the video
Bro! What an amazing facility you’ve built!!! One day
Your channel is amazing dude!
Nice captures of the planets and awesome gear! Hope you had clear skies for Mars opposition.
Thanks, yeah i did get a few over the last few weeks, havent made a video but I have put some up on the fb and instagram pages.
Great views great details and great work Sir.👍😊💯😇🙏
Thank you so much 👍
Excellent shots!
Insane setup
OMG what a nice video, thank you!!
Thanks for watching :)
Nice captures. You got some good details.
Thank you, its the first step of an evolving setup, i guess typical for the hobby
Astronomically Speaking yeah. I have an 8SE mounted on an AVX with an ASI224 and the same Celestron Barlow. I use a hyperstar for deep sky. Our setups are quite similar.
@@jujubean7664 Yeah my first newer scope in 2018 was the 8SE, a very solid scope. I do enjoy the hyperstar. I now have an advanced 1.8-2.5x barlow i've been testing along with a flip mirror, working on fine tuning that plus an asi290mm for mono planetary and a filter wheel, the last two are a whole new world for me.
Need to do a video on that observatory
Dang! Im not too familiar with telescopes, but that stuff has to be the most impressive setup i have seen so far. Even have that little "observatory building", LOL! Pretty cool
Amazing, all three looked so close :)
@Joe Reed You too pal :)
Man great video. I have an old meade 8 pec who's drive peckerd out and a Celestron 10. These three planets seem to fly when manually tracking them.
You have an awesome, center. I'm planning to set up something like you have. Could you give some advise on software and so on.
You have an incredible video. Congratulations.
Awesome video! Thanks for the demo!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing
Thank you so much for your video ❤️❤️
Thanks for a great video. Could you share some details please about your dome / observatory? Thanks. I would like something similar but am not sure where to begin!!
Thanks for watching. I have a few videos on the actual dome build and setup. There is also a link to the article/blog version with some more details there.
Great stuff sir !!
Very cool setup sir!
Thanks and thanks for watching.
Thats a awesome observatory you have did you build it ??
Excelent video man!
Nice video!
The complexity of this has convinced me to not buy a telescope
this is not a beginner scope, a beginner scope is easy to set up and use
You might find that you cant use the Ioptron mount software and Fire capture software at the same time if you don't load them both in "administrator mode" on windows. this enables the system to multiple programmes to use the driver at the same time. I hope this helps.
Thanks for this tip, ill try this out when i get back to planetary in a month or so. There is always a lag using the firecapture mount / tracking feature if I uncheck it, to being able to use the ioptron software arrows. Hopefully admin on both is the trick.
I guess. I'll stick with the fly-by photos. There are thousands on the net, and so incredibly sharp.
Haha. Yes, photos from NASA are much sharper. This is the challenge of the hobby to try to see how you can do, however, depending on where you are located and how high the target is, planetary can be quite challenging. Next year in my area Jupiter will be quite high, so i'm looking forward to revisiting things. Thanks for watching
Great video Mark. I would love to dive into planetary at some point. I’d like to get an edge 14” for the task and play with hyperstar on that monster too.
Thanks, planetary is fun. Ill have a bunch more to add in coming videos with some changes i've made. The edge 14 is on my radar some day, envy that one a bit, though the 11 is quite capable.
I have almost exactly the same set up (getting set up). Question: Did you care about back focus? Does it matter ? Mine is about 162.1 mm and looks almost exactly like yours. The only difference is mine is a tele vu 2X Barlow. Ideal back focus for the Edge 11 is reportedly 146.05 mm. I can make mine smaller and fuss with it, but yours is obviously working. So. Not sure it’s worth worrying about. What are your thoughts ?
For planetary there is no need to really worry about backfocus.
Nice video well done new sub
Sir...what is the first piece that you have connected to your OTA? The one with the orange collar. Do you have a part number?
Thanks for watching, i believe thats the SCT to 1.25" reducer/T-adapter. I think that came with the scope originally. I dug around online and cant seem to find a part number however.
I'm Antonio from Italy, i have the telescope "Skywatcher heritage" 130/650 with parabolic mirror high quality. And one sorrow news.... In the future the red spot on Jupiter vanish
Awesome set up! I rather much view through the telescope with my eyes than viewing it through a camera! To Me, viewing through a camera is no different than just watching a video of the plants on RUclips . Its more special when its your eyes actually seeing it.
Yep, I still do that every now and then. Also have a vixen flip mirror to allow both at the same time. Generally its not just viewed through the camera though, you have to keep recording to get many many frames then process those, makes for a fun challenge all in itself.
This channel is so underrated
true
Title be like: can we buy a Tesla from bill gates credit card 😂
Beautiful scope !! I have a question ? When you get that resolution right, and it's on the screen, if you look at it through the actual scope lens , is it the same view ?
No not at all, that's why the computer program is there. If not his hobby would be boring after about a year. Fuzzy circles in the sky aren't that much fun to watch.
Yeah unfortunately the visual view or optical view is much smaller, even less detailed. But there is still good fun in doing some visual observing once in awhile.
@@AstronomicallySpeaking less detailed is the understatement of a lifetime. I've viewed the Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars through a 8" mead. And you cant make out much of anything definitive except jupiters extremely fuzzy eye, Saturn's rings reflecting just as bright as the body which I always found curious as to how that's possible given its allegedly reflected light, and Mars never appeared quite the same at all. That program you run is designed to fool you into a belief system that doesnt correspond with reality. I hope you figure out this truth one day soon.
Par contre si il fait une vidéo de la lune , par pleine lune . Tu devrais avoir une vidéo de très bonne qualité sans retouche en direct.
Le c11 c'est cher mais de très bonne qualité.
I wonder if these bigger SCT´s are optimized using them for imaging or non-imaging use ? Does aperture show you more with the naked eye or primarily by using some sort of camera setup ? Could a 14 inch goto dob do the job if visual use is preferred ?
Well, they always say aperture is king. I had gone from an 8" sct to 11", i forget the exact math but i want to say visual or not it was about a 30% gain in aperture. You can see quite a bit just visually even with the 8" or my 11", I still do some visual now and then.
@@AstronomicallySpeaking I'm thinking of getting a 9.25, and given my long-held interest in photography, using the telescope for astrophotopgraphy is almost certainly where my interest will lie. With that said, is it worth investing in a wide range of eyepieces if 95% of the use is going to be for photography? Going the Tele Vue or even ES route for eyepieces can add up if you're looking to get 4 - 5 eyepieces to cover everything you might need, and I'm wondering if it might not make more sense to simply get something like a Hyperion zoom for occasional visual use?
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Not going back to the 8 inch ? A huge jump ? I am curious, I am wondering which one to buy ??
The 11 was a great leap from the 8, much better at light collecting. I had already sold the 8", though part of me wishes i still had it for portable trips to darker skies, but I dont usually do those anymore with the automation now. More convenient. I actually have some envy for a 14", so one day may upgrade.
Wow. The 14 inch looks like a permanent observatory monster..
You have qtuite an observatory !
I just want to be clear…are you calling this the “dome site” based on that little structure behind you in the intro?
I though it would have been clearer with that giant telescope
Atmosphere can have a big effect on image quality.
That is not a giant telescope.
🔭🔭🔭
Let's see the moon
I have a few shots of the moon on my fb/instagram pages. I should really spend more time on that one though.
i got to the opening credits.. i had to stop. we are brothers seperated at birth apparently... Flight simulator, astrophotography rig these are the man cave items that speak to me... also your computer could use some dusting.🤣😂
If you can nail the focus or any of the planets no matter what telescope you have it will not deliver
I guess you can't do anything about memory leaks on your computer but hope for the best hardware and registered memory...A big motherboard to spread components and avoid interference.... Errors in Windows and also memory leaks in the software ( a little on the beta side )... All you can do is hope for the best!.... That is why some people like some other operating systemsTHAT is the wholly grail of sane computing.... Also can see the diffraction caused by plastic lenses in the optics of the telescope or camera lens ( refractive index of the best plastic lenses = 46 ... cheapest glass lens refractive index = 56 ... A whole 10% sharper on a single piece add more plastic lenses and the sharpness goes down hill ).... Then is the quality and the size of the camera sensor, the bigger the sensor, the better the resolution, intead of 8 bits how about 12, 14, and higher color resolution.... I guess we play with what we have!...
Mars is blue!?🙄
I feel so poor rn.
To be honest for such an expensive telescope, the image quality isn’t that much better than a £1,000 telescope 🔭
🤧🤧🤧
It all looks pretty artificial to me, like you're simply creating the Jupiter you want to see, rather than the Jupiter that is...
C'est tout ce qu'on peut voir avec cet engin ? C'est complètement flou. A moins de retravailler les images, c'est mauvais.
11:00 This guy goes to Photoshop and digitally re-touches his images.
This is not photography. You are not representing anything real. Total fabrication and nonsense.
To bring out the details, the data needs to be processed. No earth based telescope could resolve that level of detail without lucky imaging and wavelets.
That's like saying normal photography is fake since photographers use photoshop and lightroom
processed garbage. if you are seeing it on a computer screen, just throw your scope away and login to hubble
Yes, photos from NASA are much sharper. This is the challenge of the hobby to try to see how you can do, however, depending on where you are located and how high the target is, planetary can be quite challenging. Next year in my area Jupiter will be quite high, so i'm looking forward to revisiting things. Thanks for watching
Jupiter will get better in 2022 and 2023. I'm still enjoying 2021 views though!
Why can't you tune your telescope without having to get the image processed by a program... seems pretty fishy too me. Every unprocessed picture of all the planets look nothing like what these programs pop out... what a joke
@@tcherinothebamino8833 Jupiter is rotating so fast, so you can't take long exposures. That's why you have to take hundreds of short exposure photos and you stack photos to obtain all the information from each photo that are missing from each photo to create 1 photo. It's different when you can view it from your own telescope and photo what you are seeing. It's like watching a football game or playing a football game. Playing is going to be much funnier even though it's not as good as the professional game.
Video or photo stack?
You think saturn looked good? I think you need glasses. It was way out of focus. Get rid of all that computer crap and just observe.
Looks pretty focused to me.