In October of 2023 I travelled to Soneva Fushi in the Maldives where they have an amateur observatory with a 14" telescope. While I was there I wanted to try and capture what Jupiter and Saturn look like to your eyes when you look down the telescope. I managed to attach my camera to the back of the telescope and was amazed at what I captured. I was invited to Soneva Fushi @discoversoneva to give stargazing tours to guests at the observatory in the evenings and had a wonderful trip (the trip was gifted in exchange for the stargazing evenings, I was not required to make this video but wanted to anyway!) - check out the resort here: https://soneva.com/resorts/soneva-fushi/

#astrotourism #astrophotography #maldives

The T2 to E-mount adaptor I used: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B092MMVCT...

My camera is a Sony ⍺ 7 IV: https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/...

00:00 - Introduction
01:17 - The telescope at Soneva Fushi
02:45 - How I captured this with my camera and a telescope
04:31 - Jupiter
07:08 - Saturn
09:32 - Outro

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV & an iPhone 13 Pro


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👩🏽‍💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.




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