Pics of the convergence

[Grabber5.0]

With all the photo nuts here, I was surprised not to see a thread for this. I suppose all those fine Samsung 100x pics are in those threads. Frankly, a camera with a long zoom and a tripod was the minimum required to capture much. My setup is an old-ish ultra zoom (Nikon P100, 26x zoom) on a tripod, with a timer to try to eliminate the shake from pressing the button. Playing with the settings I managed a couple of decent shots. I cropped and screen grabbed the best one. I questioned the view of Saturn until I saw one taken with a telescope of the same view that confirmed it was right, just obscured by either slightly off focus or exposure (the shot that actually shows the rings, it is NOT mine, but the angle is almost the same).

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Reference for rings. Not my shot.

 

[kmf1]

With all the photo nuts here, I was surprised not to see a thread for this. I suppose all those fine Samsung 100x pics are in those threads. Frankly, a camera with a long zoom and a tripod was the minimum required to capture much. My setup is an old-ish ultra zoom (Nikon P100, 26x zoom) on a tripod, with a timer to try to eliminate the shake from pressing the button. Playing with the settings I managed a couple of decent shots. I cropped and screen grabbed the best one. I questioned the view of Saturn until I saw one taken with a telescope of the same view that confirmed it was right, just obscured by either slightly off focus or exposure (the shot that actually shows the rings, it is NOT mine, but the angle is almost the same).

Nicely done, Grabber5.0. I'm going to try again tonight. I didn't get Jupiter's moons. But here's one of my shots from last night. Karl

 

[Grabber5.0]

Nicely done, Grabber5.0. I'm going to try again tonight. I didn't get Jupiter's moons. But here's one of my shots from last night. Karl

Nice detail on Saturn. I think I needed to be less exposed. I need to look through mine again to see if I got a better shot of Saturn - I don't think I did. Will try again tonight.

 

[Grabber5.0]

Nice detail on Saturn. I think I needed to be less exposed. I need to look through mine again to see if I got a better shot of Saturn - I don't think I did. Will try again tonight.

If I use my imagination, I think I can see rings here..

 

[B. Diddy]

I think @belodion might have a couple pics as well.

 

[belodion]

Yes. All the above are better than mine, so I’m not sure that mine are worth posting here. I used a tripod, 600mm mirror lens, telescope eyepiece adaptor on that, and then held the phone against the eyepiece. The most interesting were a few Live Photos, one of which I saved as a video and posted on Facebook. I’m not sure that I could attach it here.

 

[Grabber5.0]

Yes. All the above are better than mine, so I’m not sure that mine are worth posting here. I used a tripod, 600mm mirror lens, telescope eyepiece adaptor on that, and then held the phone against the eyepiece. The most interesting were a few Live Photos, one of which I saved as a video and posted on Facebook. I’m not sure that I could attach it here.

Perhaps upload to youtube and post a link here? (Also don't overlook that the best pic in my post was someone else's for reference.)

 

[eric002]

With all the photo nuts here, I was surprised not to see a thread for this. I suppose all those fine Samsung 100x pics are in those threads. Frankly, a camera with a long zoom and a tripod was the minimum required to capture much. My setup is an old-ish ultra zoom (Nikon P100, 26x zoom) on a tripod, with a timer to try to eliminate the shake from pressing the button. Playing with the settings I managed a couple of decent shots. I cropped and screen grabbed the best one. I questioned the view of Saturn until I saw one taken with a telescope of the same view that confirmed it was right, just obscured by either slightly off focus or exposure (the shot that actually shows the rings, it is NOT mine, but the angle is almost the same).

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Crop 2

Reference for rings. Not my shot.

Well, that's a beautiful beautiful pictures! Good for you!

 

[belodion]

Perhaps upload to youtube and post a link here? (Also don't overlook that the best pic in my post was someone else's for reference.)

Here they are. https://www.facebook.com/100007812915554/posts/2983546188582449/

As you can see, I post in beginner’s Hungarian as well as English, but since I could not have even begun to post the equipment details in Hungarian, I kept it simple.

Looking through the eyepiece, Saturn’s rings were easily discernible, and possibly some banding on the surface of Jupiter; but these details were lost in the photographic images. I used an iPhone SE 2016.

One night of clear skies locally made this possible on the 20th, so I grabbed the opportunity.

 

[Morty2264]

Wow! Such amazing photos! Thank you so much for posting! It was overcast where I live - plus I went to bed early - so I wasn't able to see anything.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

With all the photo nuts here, I was surprised not to see a thread for this. I suppose all those fine Samsung 100x pics are in those threads. Frankly, a camera with a long zoom and a tripod was the minimum required to capture much. My setup is an old-ish ultra zoom (Nikon P100, 26x zoom) on a tripod, with a timer to try to eliminate the shake from pressing the button. Playing with the settings I managed a couple of decent shots. I cropped and screen grabbed the best one. I questioned the view of Saturn until I saw one taken with a telescope of the same view that confirmed it was right, just obscured by either slightly off focus or exposure (the shot that actually shows the rings, it is NOT mine, but the angle is almost the same).

Crop 1

Crop 2

Reference for rings. Not my shot.

Beautiful!!