Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

TraderGeorge, I'm beginning to think you have a lot of theories and no facts or pictures to back them up. You really have no understanding of what it takes to get pictures of the planets. No small scope or binoculars would see Jupiter as more than a bright star and none would get the moons as more than faint pinpoints of light at best.Your comments are just plain uniformed, contrary or both.

Of course a dslr attached to a telescope would do better than a 3MP usb camera. But your original statement was a dslr and a dslr lens could get as good pics of the moon as my telescope did with a 3MP usb cam. In fact you said "I get pics similar to your Moon shots with a cheap 800mm mirror lens with a high quality tele-converter....and that is after cropping to your view angle...".

I asked to see those pics, but instead of posting them you come back and say regarding my pics of Jupiter "My SIL also saw it with a small telescope and even with larger than average binoculars." That's nonsense. How could you know what she saw if you didn't see it as well. She may have seen a bright star or maybe a dull image the size of a pin head.

Have you ever taken pics through a telescope? If you did you would know the view through the eyepiece is better and brighter than a camera can capture. The only thing the camera and software do is make the image larger.

Then you say "...Use the same arrangement (or any telescope) with a modern DSLR as the collecting device and you would not need to software enhance the images to get the shot..." It sounds like you just pull this stuff out of thin air. No pics, no facts, just opinions. The other posters here are having an intelligent conversation and you just throw these word bombs based on nothing but your uninformed opinions.

Bob