Mars Saturns and its moons

[RAC]

A Mars and Saturn shot from last night. The seeing was very very good but the transparency was very poor due to a low fog making it hard and exposures needed to be very long. I would normaly use about 25-30ms for Saturn but i had to use 80-100ms making it hard to get lots of frames.

Mars 7-5-2014by Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

Saturn 7-5-2014by Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

Saturns moonsby Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

[emadmoussa]

Wonderful!!

[RichM63]

Fabulous images.

[brantuk]

Stunning mars and saturn with fabulous detail - excellent job! Very impressive.

[oldpink]

those are stunning images

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Great images. The hexagonal storm at the pole of Saturn has clearly been picked up.

[Pete Presland]

two pretty amazing images, such detail on both! the Saturn is stunning such detail in the rings and bands.The hexagonal storm clearly showing its shape!

[Hugechris]

Fantastic shot of Mars and Saturn. Can't see the kit used on the post.

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[Barv]

Fantastic shot of Mars and Saturn. Can't see the kit used on the post.

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I think the best bit of kit is the height of those 2 at the moment and the better astro air that NZ has to offer. I am not taking anything away from Raymonds images though, - really terrific!

[simmo39]

Brilliant.

[RAC]

Fantastic shot of Mars and Saturn. Can't see the kit used on the post.

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Sorry, here's what was used.

ASI120MM camera.

Baader 1.25" RGB filters

Stacked with AS!2 and processed in Photoshop and PixInsight.

Home made carbon Serrurier truss Royce conical 10" f4 Newtonian.

Televue 5x powermate

Celestron CGE mount.

Captured with Firecapture.

Carbon Serrurier truss Royce 10" f4 by Raymond Collecutt, on Flickr

[RAC]

I haven't finished the front edge of the scope yet. I want to be able to slip a full aperture solar filter on it so i left that lip extending out the front.

[SunBear]

Awesome work!

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[Hugechris]

Very nice kit. That scope has some serious engineering. Thanks.

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[si@nite]

Wonderful shots of superb quality!

[LukeSkywatcher]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!. That is one seriously brilliant Saturn.

[FenlandPaul]

Stunning and inspiring pics - thank you.

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[Space Cowboy]

Super images! Love your scope looks a great piece of kit!

[theo]

Excellent images indeed. Nice work!!

Pete

[catman161]

Very nice images!

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[Emmanuel Marchal]

Amazing images and very impressive kit. Congrats

Manu