I set out determined to get a good image of Saturn tonight. I was using the Fuji s1000fd point and shoot bridge camera (Not quite a DSLR but not quite a compact) and was mounted afocally on a 25mm lens.

The Skywatcher 25mm super cheapy lens seems to give me the best results but i do get some nasty chromatic aberrations, whetehr this is a collimation issue or the lense alignment or something else i dont know.

I used the AVI mode to get some films that were hgely dissapointing, afocally the image is too small on my 640x480 mode to do anything with.

I then decided to try for an afocal shot of the panet itself and remember in something idread a super overexposed shot to try for the moons. Success!

Four moons i thought. It turns out to be three i don't know what the other spot is?

The sky was quite clear bar some drifting higher level clouds so i knocked it on the head and went for some touring with the goto. After fruitlessly looking for some time my eyes simply were not seeing, probably due to...

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

But in the end i found my first fuzzy. The globular cluster M3. It wasn't spectacular in my EP but boy it felt good.

So did my nice warm bed though as well!

ADDED

The forum shows its value yet again with assistance in labelling. Here is the correctly oriented and hopefully now correctly labelled saturn pic