Saturn's Rings opening 2011 - 2013...

[Kokatha man]

.....posted this over on CN late last night (Sth. Oz time! ) and thought SGL members might like to look at it to see how Saturn's rings have opened up over the last couple of years...

The only reasons for picking these 3 images from these 3 apparitions was (1) I had to be able to find 'em and (2) they had to be half-decent...

So I chose these that didn't need much fiddling around with scale and colour-rendition - but regardless I think they at least give a good demo of how Saturn's Rings have opened up as the Northern hemisphere tilts our way and we see more of the NP region...

[Bluey]

Lovely pics, well done, interesting to see.

[wookie1965]

Great pictures Saturn was my wow moment when i got my scope i still feel the same when i view it now and those pictures just make me wish i had clear skies to view it again tonight thanks.

[Josh Wilson]

Wonderful pics of Saturn. I do believe I can see its hexagonal pole shape little bit if I look closely. Can anyone else see it?

Josh

[Atlas]

Stunning.

[Stephen Green]

Very nice images

Stephen

[Khw]

Interesting , thanks for sharing

[si@nite]

Nice to see the differential of the rings from year to year, they are opening up nicely now even i might be able to get the cassini this time around

[astroman001]

Great set of images,

regards

Peter

[Kokatha man]

Thanks to Bluey, Wookie, Josh, Atlas, Stephen, Khw, Simon & Peter - your comments are appreciated!

Josh, you must've missed my last thread which goes into the North Polar stuff...

I've just tried the new high-speed drivers and FireCapture Build #37 (yeah, I'm a bit of a Luddite in some ways! ) and apart from lots of actual imaging problems they both seemed to work fine...

We had clouds that weren't supposed to be there at home and remnants of the smoke haze that had drifted several hundred kilometres on a South-Easterly wind from the nasty bushfires in Victoria.....I put the couple of avi's we captured down as experiments/learning experiences with the new software but I may post an image later on if it stands up - but I think that at the very least we learnt something, which is allways good..!

[stellawolf]

Super set of images well done

[The Wildman]

Thanks for sharing your hard work.

interesting info on this as well.

nice one.