First Saturn in 2009

[Darth Takahashi]

My first attempt at Saturn this year. The weather conditions weren't perfect, but were the best they have been for weeks, so what the hell.

Actually, this is the first time that I have captured Saturn with my Mewlon M250. Saturn moved into position at around 23:00.

Transparency was poor with a lot of water vapor still in handing around in the atmosphere. My guess is that this is going to become much worse as we go into spring.

Seeing was average, not really the main problem on the night.

My feeling was that the native F11 was enough for the conditions, perhaps a little too much. I might have been able to push this to

F22 with an IR pass filter but its doubtful!

Neil.

[Darth Takahashi]

Sorry I appear to have posted in the wrong thread... I don't know how to move it to planetary?

[rawhead]

Looks good to me Neil. Definite banding

Cheers

Jon