Saturn, first this year worth posting

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Instead of a nasty windy night as per the forecast, there was hardly any wind at all. Some clouds later which cut it short when the guiding lost its place. Anyhoo, the seeing was very wobbly so its not up to the usual standard that gets posted by the planet killers here.

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The moons are from a duplicated layer which had to be stretched massively, but the dots are real. Titan above, then Dione close underneath and finally Rhea.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[thing]

Well it's a damn sight better than my pics of Saturn. Great detail on the cloud belts there.

[beamish]

Good effort mate, especially like the moons. What with and how did you capture?

[GazOC]

Nice image KK.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Thanks guys, here's the details for Karlo.

Standard Toucam with IR/UV filter on, 4X Imagemate on the Tal 200K so f/40 ish, 8 metre focal length.

10FPS, gain on 80%, shutter speed on full, saturation of full, gamma on half.

Capture and guiding via K3CCD tools set to 175 second captures at a repeat rate of three minutes.

Left it going for half an hour and picked the useable AVIs (the ones with stuff on due to clouds getting in the way on lots of them). After half an hour it had got cloudy (no more Saturn on the screen next to the telly so I parked it all and shut the lid. Copied the files via the network wotsit and locked it all down ready for the storm that didn't happen.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[beamish]

Storm,.................................uhmmm yes, didn't quite arrive did it ? I tried for Mars last night but as you say wobbling all over then packed up expecting " The Storm "

Thanks for the info Kaptain

[jgs001]

Nicely caught KK, those moons came out well as well.

[moondog]

Good capture KK - like the moons

8)

MD

[lunator]

KK

very good pic

Good catch on the moons.

Cheers

Ian

[SteelRat]

That's a superb Saturn shot mate 8) Really good work.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[Sam]

Excellent pic KK and I like how you've included the moons as well!

[themos]

8 meter focal length... well done! I must keep trying with my barlowed 900mm reflector now that I have the RA motor on the EQ1, I have no excuse. Watch out, Kaptain!