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A couple jupiter shots with the sx730

Started May 29, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP saaber1 Senior Member • Posts: 2,164
Re: A couple jupiter shots with the sx730

PhotoRaw wrote:

@saaber1,

Wow! Very nice, nice ring. The sx730 is a portable telescope.

Great job!

Thanks!  I tried shooting Jupiter with dslr and 600mm lens but sx730 looks much better. For moon dslr beat it by a long shot but for Jupiter and Saturn they are just a tiny speck in the frame and sx730 did much better.

Btw, I read that yogager spacecraft took over three years to reach Saturn at 37,000 miles per hour.  Seems crazy to get pics of something that far away.

Next challenge for this little camera I think could be trying to get shots of the space station.  I have tried with dslr and wasn’t successful. I don’t think it was camera shake (possible though) or motion blur that was the problem.  I think it was just too small in the frame. Sx730 might fix that but trying to shoot space station at a high enough shutter speed and not be just a noise-fest might be a huge hurdle. Anyway. I think that would be a fun challenge for this little camera. No idea if it could do it or not.

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