rwt Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I got up at 4:45 am the other day and took this photo. This was my first view of Saturn also. I was very impressed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdance Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I got up at 4:45 am the other day and took this photo. This was my first view of Saturn also. I was very impressed!Saturn0005 15-03-28 1.pngI'm very impressed with your photo! Excellent! Kudos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwt Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I'm very impressed with your photo! Excellent! Kudos...Thanks. I was pretty happy, especially considering that I had never viewed Saturn before. I'm pleased with what I can see with my "cheap" 120mm achromatic refractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkywatcher Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Thats a cracking little image of Saturn. The colour is a bit off but who cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon Brush Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 To get RWT's picture into perspective.At junior school (circa 1966) we had a Patrick Moore astronomy book in the class library.There was a colour picture of Saturn taken using the Mount Palomar scope.From memory it was only slightly better than RWT's pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I remember getting up at 3 in the morning to get my 1st ever view of Saturn with my old 60mm Tasco refractor 30+ years ago. I'll never forget the feeling of seeing it in the eyepiece Me too, but for Jupiter! Couldn't sleep again when I went to bed afterwards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 When I showed the moon to my girlfriend with my tv60, she said WOW! When I showed her Jupiter, she said Wow!When I showed her the double cluster, she said Oh, that's cool!When I wanted to show her Andromeda at her parents' house in Devon (what a sky....!), she went to bed!Yeah, funny to see how reactions can be different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdance Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 When I showed the moon to my girlfriend with my tv60, she said WOW!When I showed her Jupiter, she said Wow!When I showed her the double cluster, she said Oh, that's cool!When I wanted to show her Andromeda at her parents' house in Devon (what a sky....!), she went to bed!Yeah, funny to see how reactions can be different!Well, a grey smudge is...a grey smudge, I guess You should have shown her the Pleiades! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Grey smudge??! That was the best view of Andromeda I saw in my life, and I took a photo of it with my brain! What a beauty! You could see the two satellite galaxies too and all was very clear! I showed her the Pleiades, but those were just 'nice'The first time I saw them on my tv60 I was jumping of joy in the field...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdance Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Ah, the effect of dark skies...of course......I was thinking of here, in Smudge Central Pleiades merely 'nice' eh? No accounting for taste... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwt Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Thats a cracking little image of Saturn. The colour is a bit off but who cares. There's a good reason for the color being a bit off. I used a #8 Yellow filter when taking the image, because it brought out a bit more detail and reduced chromatic aberration. I now have a Baader Semi APO filter that lives in my refractor which gives much truer color. I'll post a new picture sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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