Saturn IR with time laps

[RAC]

The seeing didn't suit an RGB image but it looked ok for IR last night so I thought I would give a time laps a go. This is three hours in ten images.

ASI120mm camera

Baader 685nm filter

Home made(including mirror) 18" f3.3 newtonian

5X powermate So f16 @ 7600mm

[laudropb]

Lovely image. Lots of detail. Thanks for sharing.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Superb! The detail is just amazing.

[Rihard]

Amazing Saturn!

[xtreemchaos]

stuning image mate, amazing detail.  thanks for sharing.  charl..

[Pete Presland]

Fantastic image that is some aperture you have there!

[RAC]

Fantastic image that is some aperture you have there!

Haha yep that was the point in making the scope. When doing last years Mars I was always disappointed with the resolution of my 10" scope when I used an IR pass filter. There is only one way to fix that and that's with aperture. I can't wait for Mars next time and the time after that too.

I'm making a 20" f3.8 mirror now but that will be in a dob mount for visual mainly but I may power it and us it for planetary imaging if the mirror turns out anything like my 18".

Here's my 18" next to my 10" Royce mirrored scope

Two telescopes by Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

[kenny k]

Excellent work,well done.

Kenny

[Ibbo!]

great stuff

[sammak127]

amazing.. as an animator, I really love the moving image version.

 so that is the amount of rotation saturn does in 3 hours... AMAZING!

[phileefan]

Very nice image! I really like the rotating one. The moving cloud bands near the north pole is especially cool.    Thanks for sharing. Clear skies.......

[matt-c]

Fantastic! I can't stop looking at the animation

[orion25]

WOW! Amazing stuff! Love the animation and the resolution. And what an amazing scope you built! That's how ya do it!

Reggie

[Thom]

They are quite brilliant.  thank you for sharing.

[knobby]

Beautiful