What's wrong with the seeing?

[At dusk]

With all the main planets well placed for  imaging, it's amazing that there's not a single night with good seeing. I've been trying for almost a month, watching the planets with my Little 4" and waiting for a good night to set up my SC.

The seeing didn't look too bad yesterday so I decided to try, just to see saturn "dancing" in the screen of my computer. Focusing was a real adventure. Anyway, my first saturn this year.

 

[Knighty2112]

That’s a great image from a 4” scope. Well done! I was visually looking at Saturn the night before and had great viewing, but I never imaged it with my ASI 120mc, but it held up to magnification real well. 

[At dusk]

Sorry. I think I didn’t explain myself well. I used the 4” to check the seeing, but I took the picture with my 9.25 hd.

[chiltonstar]

 

23 minutes ago, At dusk said:

Sorry. I think I didn’t explain myself well. I used the 4” to check the seeing, but I took the picture with my 9.25 hd.

Ah yes, I was wondering how you had exceeded the theoretical best performance of a 4" scope! Lovely image.

Chris

[Pete Presland]

Lovely looking Saturn image. If Spain is anything like the UK at the moment, it's like an oven!

So many thermal currents come off hot buildings, concrete it's going to be a bit wobbly I guess ?

[orion25]

Gorgeous Saturn! I'm glad you explained that you took this with a 9.25 and not a 4-inch; I was wondering, "how in the ...!" ? 

Reggie

[Stub Mandrel]

I wouldn't complain, your extra 10 degrees south makes a huge difference compared to what we have here in the UK.

[At dusk]

Yes. Ten degreees is quite a difference. It´s too bad that we haven´t been lucky so far with the seeing. Yesterday I tried on jupiter. But the jet stream was really strong. I only managed to get this.

 

 

Regards

[At dusk]

4 hours ago, orion25 said:

Gorgeous Saturn! I'm glad you explained that you took this with a 9.25 and not a 4-inch; I was wondering, "how in the ...!" ? 

Reggie

Just for fun, last year I imaged Júpiter once with my 4.7" refractor. This is what I got

Obviously, aperture rules. But you can do interesting things with a small telescopel

 

[orion25]

1 hour ago, At dusk said:

But you can do interesting things with a small telescopel

Absolutely! Beautiful Jupiter image?

[si@nite]

Nice crisp shot of saturn well done!