Saturn tonight skywatcher 180 mak

[DaveGibbons]

This is probably as good as I can do with the mak. It was shot at midnight and the moon probably interfered with contrast a bit . Seeing was good.

Saturn 7" mak tal 2x barlow 150 webcam image stack

I have a couple more AVI's to look at but don't expect them to be any better. Going to bed now , work at 6am.

cheers

Dave

[geppetto]

Excellent Saturn Dave 8)

Well done

[mightymonoped]

Top job Dave. Has a really nice natural feel to it, with lots of detail.

Just out of curiosity, how many frames did you capture?

Tony

[dazza1639]

Great stuff

[MartinB]

Some fine detail on the disc there Dave.

[FLO]

Had some fun with that one Dave

[DaveGibbons]

Tony, I stacked the best 150 from 400 frames . I've actually got an AVI with 1000 frames to go at and may be able to draw more detail out of that. Steve very good play around with the image , I always try to leave the final stacked image as soft as possible but I know a more aggressive approach to registax can produce a different result !

cheers

Dave

[SteelRat]

That's a real nice Saturn Dave 8)

[GazOC]

Nice pic Dave, the focusing is a bit of an art at that focal length eh?

[DaveGibbons]

A black art indeed Gaz! Wait till I try it at f45 with a 3x tal barlow.

Dave

[GazOC]

I'm waiting for the adaptor to arrive so I can fit my WO Crayford on the Mak. I'll let you know how I get on.

[DaveGibbons]

Gaz where are you getting the adapter from? I was thinking along those lines only attaching one of the cheaper GSO sct units.

Dave

[GazOC]

www.scopestuff.com sell them for $40 + P&P

www.telescope-service.com sell them for 40 Euros + 5 P&P (or 18 for insured)

Have you seen the Antares SCT Crayfords? £89 for the dual speed model.