Saturn from last night 19/03/09

[Darth Takahashi]

Well I tried to push for more image scale, however, at F22 the only thing that I got was mush... Thats 6 metres by the way for those who are interested! Anyway, I wound things back to F16 (1.5 x F11) and Saturn improve a little. I captured approx 1GB of data and then passed it via Registax 5.

Telescope: Mewlon M250

Camera : Philips SPC900

Seeing and transparency were both average.

I don't know what I done wrong but someone is punishing me... Everytime I look I see some great images of Saturn, far better than mine...

Neil.

[PeterBRossiter]

Nice image Neil. As you said on my thread, our images are much alike. We did try a 3x Tal barlow as well with my setup but Saturn looked awful and i was told it wasn't worth the effort. So much the say situation as yourself.

Pete

[NiteGawper]

Lovely image Neil...!! Makes me really keen to have another go at Saturn with a barlow and hope to get anything close to your results...

[Darth Takahashi]

Thanks Guy's,

It seem that a lot of this depends on the weather conditions. In particular the seeing or steadiness of the atmosphere. Some people in the UK seem to be sitting in particularly good sweat spots weather wise lately...

Neil.

[philsail1]

Yes, a very pleasant, and good quality image of Saturn Neil!

Regards,

philsail1

[MartinB]

That's the trouble with this planetary mullarky, it seems an uphill struggle when the seeing is iffy.

[Sam]

Nice one Neil, lovely colour and nice detail!