Schlatter Family Site

Photos taken through telescope
29 May 2006

Here are photos taken on 29 May 2006 using the same Kodak EasyShare C300 digital camera held up to the telescope eyepiece.

Crescent (New) Moon

Here are two photos of Jupiter -- not very good.  Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.  Any telescope will show four of Jupiter's many moons -- the Galilean moons, so called because they were discovered by Galileo.  These photos were taken using the Kodak EasyShare C300 digital camera held up to the telescope eyepiece.  The moon photographs easily because it is bright.  Jupiter -- compared to the moon -- is not bright, thus, not much shows up in the photos.

In this photo you can barely make out three of the four moons.  Jupiter is the bright white ball in the center of the photo.  Look just above Jupiter and you see two tiny white dots -- one of them is brighter than the other -- these are two of Jupiter's four Galilean moons.  Then, look farther above Jupiter and slightly to the right where you will see another tiny white dot -- that's a third moon.  The fourth moon was at the bottom and did now show up in the photo.

I edited the photo below using PhotoShop -- changed the color, hue, brightness, and contrast.  You can see the three moons somewhat more clearly now.  Two of the moons are very close together just above and slightly to the right of Jupiter, a third moon is above the two and the fourth moon is out of sight at the bottom.