Pete Presland

Fabulous capture and a great advert for the C9.25 scope and Asi290mc camera. 

Very nicely captured.

I definitely saw them that night as well, also the early hours of this morning as well. 

Fingers crossed for no sandstorm this time! 

Always worth a 2nd look, a superb capture!

 I remember seeing the impact marks on the news, it would have been fascinating to have been imaging it back then. 

Cant wait for dark tonight, hopefully they are still putting on a show!

No definitely not, even though the idea was to use for imaging DSO's which I haven't for a couple of years. I use it regularly for solar imaging and my storing OTA's so they are already cooled for use in the winter.

3 hours ago, Demonperformer said:

I'm not laughing ... mine was almost identical (taken in the same season).

I miss those naive imaging in some ways. Manually tracking a planet, while trying to get the focus, exposure and then hit capture 🙂

WOW look at those beauties, fabulous display!

I use mine in a Skywatcher Evostar 120mm and a Celestron ED80.

16 hours ago, Demonperformer said:

Yes, but the rings will be practically closed in the early 2020s. The true splendour will be around 2030.

My 1st Saturn image was with the rings completely closed from 2010, dont laugh!!!!

Two nights in a row this week is fantastic going, not seen a hint of blue/clear sky for ages! 

Looks like we missing some nice displays of welcome cloud action,  what a grim week so far 🙂

Not a fan myself, but that's only because I like being freezing cold at night and tired the next morning 😀 On a personal level being outside looking up at the stars is a huge part of astronomy for me, probably why a stopped imaging DSO's, I just felt I was looking down more than up! 🤩

Seriously though, do what you enjoy! As DP said as long you are honest about what you are presenting I don't see why anyone would have a problem. Damien peach's planetary images of late are a collaboration with the  http://www.chilescope.com/  team.

You will find many of his planetary images in their gallery. There is also a "remote (robotic) capture" category in the Insight astrophotographer of the year competition as well. 

1 hour ago, Demonperformer said:

Totally agree with this. Learning to 'see' instead of just 'look at' is one of the best skills you can develop.

Totally agree, Its called observing for a reason. I have spent over hour on some object in the winter, especially as the seeing "come and goes" during a session.

I found WinJupos not the easiest thing to use, but very worthwhile for extending my RGB image runs up to 9 minutes if I remember correctly.

There is an interesting thread here from a few years back

And a link to a nicely described tutorial here

https://rk.edu.pl/en/planetary-maps-and-de-rotation-winjupos/

A fine looking image especially from these shores, some nice subtle detail visible there. 

Hi welcome to SGL form Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL form Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL form Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL form Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂

http://www.spaceweather.com/ said they were seen at San Francisco which is +38N, usually they are seen at above +50/55. I live at +52 and have seen them quite a few times. 

The image certainly benefited from an RGB balance in Registax 6, i also tried an RGB align, which was less successful. Then i applied a very light wavelet sharpen. I guessed you had probably already sharpened the image.  

Not sure i have improved it much to be honest.

Saturn is tough at the moment, with its position in the sky. An ADC really is going to help a lot with its current position.

A couple of questions. How frames did you capture and stack?  Also if you save as PNG files you can post the actual images, rather than members having to down load them they can view them in the post. You may get more response.