I thought I have some fun and try and get on video a geo sat, by attaching my video camera to the end of the telescope. I aimed it up at PAS 1R ( 26608 ) seeing it was bright on the tv screenm using the 50 mm F1.4 lens. So I removed the camera from the top of the scope, and put it into the telescope's focuser. My scope is a skywatcher 70 mm F12 refractor, so it's focal length is 900 mm. When I use the camera at the end of the scope the feild of view is approx 12 arc minutes across give are take a few arc minutes. The fainest star I could see when looking at the tv was approx mag 9.7 I can't wait to try it on my new toy, a celestron Nextar 102 SLT. It's a 102 mm F6.7 scope. So it's focal length is 660 mm. Means I'll have a slightly bigger feild of view, and more light being collected to let me see fainer. Here's PAS 1R as it passed a bright star TYC 4695 949 ( tycho star catalog ) Right ascension: 02h08m31s Declination: -06 40' 40 " Visual Mag +6.5 http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/26608.wmv Kevin __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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