Smash and grab Saturn 2-8-19 1138

[knobby]

Managed a 30 minute spell last night between garage roof, neighbours roofs and trees. Very spur of the moment but egged on by finally being able to lift the C8 onto the AVX after damaging shoulder 18 months ago.

Not fantastic but with the low elevation and heat haze from roofs pretty relieved to see it all still works 😃

Best 25% of 5000 frames .Stacked in Autostakkert, registax wavelets and sent to phone to tweak colour balance / noise in Photoshop express.

C8 edge / Televue 2 x barlow / ZWO 224

 

Edited August 3, 2019 by knobby
added equipment used

[Stargazer33]

That's really good considering the low altitude of the planets at the moment and your seeing conditions! The Cassini Division is very clear and there is definite cloud banding showing too. Well done.

[knobby]

Thanks for the nice comments

[skywatcher250]

Nice mate !!! Really nice 

[Blazar]

Well done Knobby! Good to hear the shoulder is on the up (so to speak) as well 🙂

[astroman001]

Great capture, well done.

Peter

[U Cyg]

Lovely capture!

Glad your shoulder is feeling better.   I struggle every time trying to  get my 8SE ota on the eq5 mount  -  because I am a sub five footer and I have to stand on tippy toes. 🤣

Angie

[knobby]

8 hours ago, astroman001 said:

Great capture, well done.

Peter

Thanks Peter

2 hours ago, U Cyg said:

Lovely capture!

Glad your shoulder is feeling better.   I struggle every time trying to  get my 8SE ota on the eq5 mount  -  because I am a sub five footer and I have to stand on tippy toes. 🤣

Angie

I can relate to that ... Had to have the AVX as high as possible to clear neighbours roofs ... It was a bit like putting a heavy bag in overhead luggage on a plane 😃

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured, anything from these shores at the moment is going to be difficult. Some really nice details visible there.