Saturn awful seeing 31st May

[neil phillips]

Got completely clouded out yet again. Cloud rolling along Saturns elevation. One 4 minute aborted capture. With low histogram. Kept pausing the capture as Saturn was winking out with the rolling cloud. Couldnt get much worse actually. As such i am encouraged with my first light of my old cleaned and re vamped (smaller Antares 1/30th secondary ) Orion UK F6.3 245mm Newtonian. It hasn't been used for 5 years. Good to have my old friend back. Even if conditions were bad.

 

 

Edited May 31, 2021 by neil phillips

[maw lod qan]

Not bad for bad seeing. I enjoy watching the angle of the rings change over time. Couple more years and they will be so close to edge on they seem to disappear!

[Pete Presland]

Some decent detail for the conditions, not easy down at that altitude. The angle of the rings does look significantly different fom my last images (form memory), my first Saturn image from around 10-12 years back they were pretty much edge on.

[neil phillips]

2 hours ago, maw lod qan said:

Not bad for bad seeing. I enjoy watching the angle of the rings change over time. Couple more years and they will be so close to edge on they seem to disappear!

Cheers considering all things. I thought the stack would look far worse. But you can see how soft it is.  Comparison  The same scope

With the old DFK single shot colour cameras. Under a lot better conditions Many years ago

Edited May 31, 2021 by neil phillips

[neil phillips]

58 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Some decent detail for the conditions, not easy down at that altitude. The angle of the rings does look significantly different fom my last images (form memory), my first Saturn image from around 10-12 years back they were pretty much edge on.

It was Frustrating Pete i had hoped my first shot would have been somewhat better. Just a few minutes with no cloud and i am sure the result would have been a lot better. But its early days. Better angle for us now agreed. 20 Degrees in darkness good seeing and better should be coming i hope