My first Saturn of 2022

[MarsG76]

Hi Astronomers,

I finally had a night of half decent seeing. I attempted imaging Saturn a few time before with terrible results until 21 August... so I finally got something that worth sharing.

These images were captured with my C8 SCT using a Skyris 618C, DMK21au618 and DMK41au02 CCD cameras.

I captured 10 x 90 second videos with each camera and used WinJupos to de-rotate the best 10% of each video, resulting in the attached images.

I used the mono stack captured with the DMK21 as the luminance channel and the Skyris618C stack as the color data. The DMK41 was used for the wider FOV with a longer exposure to capture the surrounding moons... Titan, Rhea, Dione and Tethys.

 

Clear Skies,

Mariusz

 

Edited August 26, 2022 by MarsG76

[Kon]

Excellent images and nice details.

[neil phillips]

Very nice Mariusz

[callisto]

Nice and crisp... thanks for sharing 👍

 

Mark.

[JeremyS]

Stunning 👍🏻

[Greymouser]

Excellent. Can I see a little detail on one of the moons? Or am I imagining it?

[MarsG76]

16 hours ago, Greymouser said:

Excellent. Can I see a little detail on one of the moons? Or am I imagining it?

I'd say you're imaging it... the moon's were imaged at a 1/3 second exposure for 10 minutes, the longer exposure per frame to actually capture the moons, any detail would surely be blurred away.