Saturn July 18th

[Space Cowboy]

First Saturn of the year! Seeing was pretty good but you can guarantee hazy cloud has to appear from somewhere just at the vital moment. Frame rate was down in the 20s at reasonable gain and only 50s at very high gain.  Anyhow the higher gain avi produced the best image.

I used a red filter with the colour ASI224 cam so no faffing with a ADC.

Auto Dob 250 & 3x barlow + extension :

17 degrees alt 21.24ut :

Edited July 18, 2016 by Space Cowboy

[si@nite]

Well done Stuart a nice clean shot!

[neil phillips]

very good Stuart, know what you mean about the low horizon cloud don't it always move over. interesting about the higher gain being better, slow exposures nearly always produce more smear, not sure if thats a UK rubbish seeing effect. Same consideration I had on Neptune, went with high gain too. But just know it needs to be lower.

Great result this late

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Simon & Neil! That was actually taken yesterday on the 17th. Here is one from tonight the 18th. Not sure if its any better, possibly slightly lol

 

[si@nite]

A improvement for sure Stuart, nicely done!

[laudropb]

Very nice images.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks guys! I reckon when I move my head from side to side and close one eye I can just make out some banding on the globe.

[Space Cowboy]

[astroman001]

Some very good images from the UK, well done.

Peter