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@lain-at-the-gay-bar it can, but not for the reasons you'd think

the only reason a regular phone camera or dslr can't really take a good photo of a planet is zoom

phones typically only zoom to like 120mm, a standard camera zoom lens is 300mm (at this point you'd start to see an oval shaped star), with a 600mm telephoto lens (think the big lenses wildlife photographers use) you can just barely start to make out the rings.

however, using a telescope, you can easily double or triple that range, i took the saturn photo at 2400mm through a telescope. the camera used was, in my case, an astronomy camera specifically for taking photos through a telescope, but it would've been the same if i had attached a regular dslr camera to it. the telescope just acts as a large lens.

as much as i like posting pretty pictures here my goal is actually to do astronomy outreach so uh. my asks are open and this post is open for AMA stuff !

i'm a hobbyist astronomer/astrophotographer of about 2 years now

and here are some of those pretty pictures anyways

#camera #telescope

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as much as i like posting pretty pictures here my goal is actually to do astronomy outreach so uh. my asks are open and this post is open for AMA stuff !

i'm a hobbyist astronomer/astrophotographer of about 2 years now

and here are some of those pretty pictures anyways

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #lensblr #stars #clouds

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palms

#photography #sky #lensblr

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winter ❄️ 🌒

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #lensblr #stars #clouds

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dark clouds

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #lensblr #clouds

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Unless you have concrete evidence, "The government did X thing to distract from Y thing" is conspiracy thought.

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The Pink Moon & Spica

shot on my nikon z5 & tamron 150-600mm lens, composite of 3 photos

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #lensblr #stars

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#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #sky #stars #lensblr

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#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #lensblr #stars

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orion, the hyades and the pleiades

around 3 minutes of exposure on my nikon z5 and 24-70mm f/4 lens

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #sky #stars #lensblr

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#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #sky #clouds #lensblr

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Buckle up, European and Foreigner Tumblypoos, because I'm about to learn you a thing about AMERICA.

You see these delectable motherflippers? These are called STATES. You stupid foreigners might not be able to wrap your head around this, but basically they're administrative subdivisions of the country.

And here's the thing: They are totally heckin' different from each other! For instance, New York:

Looks TOTALLY DIFFERENT from Kansas:

And they both look TOTALLY different from California!

So before you make fun of an American for not knowing where tiny third-world countries like "Check Republic" or "South Korea" are, maybe think about how much we have to learn about the unique regional differences in our OWN country. Maybe you should think about AMERICA more.

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4321

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Mare Crisium, Archimedes and Theophilus

photos taken on my 8'' dobsonian telescope and ASI178mc camera at 2400mm

#photography #astronomy #space #astrophotography #night sky #moon #craters #lunar

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You should look at the stars whenever you can. Remember they’re there so you don’t forget to look when you’re able to see them.

Learn some of their names and the patterns they make.

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Neighbor has BRIGHT FUCKING LIGHTS THAT RUIN MY SOUTHERN SKY I have been WRONGED this is the WRONGEST EVER

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After spending five minutes in the darkness of a total solar eclipse, I completely understand why some cultures would flip the fuck out over the event.

Daylight starts to dim over an hour or so and then suddenly you're in twilight-level darkness while overhead is a perfectly black void ringed by great silver streams of solar corona arcing off into space and sometimes the red glint of solar flares on the lunar edge.