Saturn last night 01.05.08

[beamish]

here are a few humble efforts from last nights viewing. The slightly larger versions are from an experiment with slight increase in the digital zoom of the w/cam, but all are with an ED 3x barlow on the 8" cape.

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Karlo

[algol]

nice pics, beamish very natural looking colour

[dogfish]

Hi Karlo

Nice and sharp, they are. Looks like you nailed the focusing.

Cheers, Martin

[Sam]

Nice shots Karlo - there's quite a bit of detail and the second one has some nice banding on the planet showing through.

[steppenwolf]

Excellent close in detail in the bands

[beamish]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm reasonably pleased with them. Quite intrigued by the "digital zoom " aspect too. As I say it was just a touch of zoom and had quite a dramatic impact on scale. The seeing appeared to go off as the night wore on.

Karlo

[beamish]

Been tinkering away, hopefully this will be an improvement

I really like the way the shadow on the rings show up So far I think is likely to be my best Saturn capture and learned a hell of a lot in the process.

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Karlo

[Sam]

Karlo,

I reckon you've captured a couple of storms on the planet. There's two slightly brighter patches on the lower part of the planet - well done!

Sam

[Sam]

Karlo, I hope you don't mind but I played with the image a bit to see if the bright spots could be brought out more:

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I reckon that's two of them in the lower hemisphere.

cheers

Sam

[saturn5]

Excellent detail Karlo,the bands showing up really well,your efforts are bearing fruit as they say.You're certainly on the road to success with Saturn.

[barkis]

Nice work Karlo. stacks of detail you have caught there,

Cassini is very visible too.

Ron.

[beamish]

No I don't mind at all Sam, I think you may be right, like to think so at any rate . Thanks for the comments guys, have to admit to being quite surprised by this last one, I actually gasped :shock: !! You know what - I'm really chuffed with this pic.

Can't wait for the nxt opportunity, though have to admit that setting up on the 1st May was entirely off the cuff as I wasn't expecting any decent viewing at all, just goes to show you.

Karlo