Saturn's sats

[nytecam]

My 30cm scope's current 'fast' f/3.4 set-up @ 1030mm fl for capturing faint galaxies has too low an image scale for the planets like Saturn but ok to record the its satellites here in a brief snaps of 100ms [=1/10s].  Even 1/10s esp is too long to avoid disk burnout - the Saturn inset here is through thin cloud as a ND 'filter' .

Used Carte du Ciel planetarium prog to ID the moons - Iapetus @ m11.3 recorded but Hyperion @ m14.3 not recorded - 250ms [=1/4s] did record it just.  Can you see some of Saturn's moons?   

[oldpink]

nice
I managed to see what I think was Titan last night using a 5X Barlow when I was viewing Saturn

[cotterless45]

Titan's it for me, until they turn all the lights off,

Nick.

[John]

I can see 6 Saturnian moons with my 12" dob. Mimas is my next challenge but is likely to be too faint due to Saturn's low altitude this time around. 

[Paul73]

I've had some surprising successes by using a light blue filter which seems to knock saturn's glare down by a notch or two. This lets your eyes pick up the faint satellites.

5 seem fairly straightforward. There seem to be more floating in the "can't quite claim that as a spot" territory.

BTW - Sky & Telescope have brought out a simple Saturn app (very similar to their hugely popular Jupiter's Moons app). I've downloaded it but have yet to use it in anger.

Paul

[LeeB]

light pollution dropped me to 4 the other night with 12 inch.

[dkbender]

with my 12.5" Dob Friday night.... using the 4.7mm 82* e.p. and a 2x Barlow (for 675x), I could clearly see 5 of Saturn's sats.    And there were moments I thought I was seeing a 6th but wasn't sure because my Dob is not motorized and the view is fleeting at that power.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I have seen a coupleof Saturn's moons (Titan most frequently), but would have to dig through some records to recall which others (Iapetus, Enceladus, and Dione should be among them)

[Stu]

If I remember rightly, I saw 5 with the Mak a few years back, the seeing was very good and I was up at x300 odd with a borrowed 13mm ethos. That led to the start of my Televue purchases I think!!

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[Rapidray]

I hope you can find a solution and everything works out. Tagging this one for future reference. Take care.

[pepitoz]

Very nice 

Saturn's moons are amazing, especially with large aperture where you can get more than 6 moons in one field of view. With Jupiter, seeing more than 4 moons is nearly impossible, but with Saturn, a 10 inch can show quite often 6 satellites, and even more, weather permitting  .