October 26, 2008
when you use a telescope or binoculars to see the stars what do you see?
Can you answer England_Rules's question about Binoculars?:
Do you see like a round object, colourful and looks like there is electricity going around the star.
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A point of light. Sounds like you have cheap binoculars!
It's still just a point of light, even in very large telescopes. Betelgeuse is one of the few stars that's huge enough and near enough to almost be resolvable as a disc.
They are brighter in scopes and binoculars, though.
It depends on the size of the telescope. For the little telescope that we can put in the back yard, yeah, you see a speck of light, just a little round blob. Especially with the atmosphere which blurs everything to a blob.
But through a big enough telescope (like billions of dollars worth!) you could see details like flares. They could look like electricity.
Check out my link to see pictures of stars.
a star. the better the binoculars or telesscope, the sharper the point of light you see. my very best telessscope cost as much as a nice used car and stars look like mathematical points.
you still see a blusih point of light but with most good optics you're also able to see constellations which the naked eye can't detect unaided.
Just a dot.
You may be looking at Jupiter - very bright, and up most of the night. There are often 4 dots in a line near it. Those are Jupiter's biggest moons.
Yess..i like to see around object,around my house..I hope one day i have a powerful binocular..
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its like having your eyes half opened at watching at the trafic lights.
Stars are brighter in a telescope, but still pinpoints of light. Some have color to them like red or blue, which is a bit more obvious in a telescope. Cheap refractor telescopes (and binoculars) will have a lot of chromatic aberration, which will impart "false" colors, different colors of light have different refractive indexes, which get "split" like a prism will do.
In a perfect telescope, on an atmospherically perfect night, you will see a tiny round disc (the 'Airy disc') surrounded fainter circles of light that get progressively fainter the further they are from the star. In a less-than-perfect telescope or on a normal night this will be subject to aberrations added by the optics and the atmosphere.