Afocal Saturn

[philsail1]

Here is another attempt at capturing Saturn "Afocally" with my Canon A570is digicamera. Camera settings were Shutter Speed 3.2 seconds. ISO 80. (+ 2 Exposure Compensation) Focus set at Infinity. Image was sharpened using basic "Picasa" program. Scope used was Celestron C8 SCT. Eyepiece Celestron 18mm Orthoscopic. Camera was zoomed to 4x.

"seeing" wasn't that clear - a bit of a mistiness set in towards 11.00pm. Night was very mild up here in Connah's Quay, North Wales.

Haven't quite got the focusing right yet.

Regards,

philsail1

[Paliadon]

Not a bad effort mate. Certainly puts any of my NokonD70s 200mm Prime zoom to shame. :-) I normally get a small fuzzy ball.

Can't wait 'til my scope arrives.

[omneferuss]

A great shot ! ..afocal and EP-projection are much under-utilised methods methinks.

[MeerkatinBKK]

Sweet shot!

Do you have one of those adaptors to mount the camera to your scope or do it another way?

Cheers,

Nick

[philsail1]

Thanks for your kind comments gentlemen.

Yes Nick, I use a camera bracket identical to the one FLO sells.

And set the cameras shutter to a customised three second delay to allow things to steady up. (I have a remote shutter button attachment, which attaches to the digicamera body, but I find the shutter delay more convenient).

Regards,

philsail1

[rawhead]

That's a fantastic afocal

As good as I've seen.....

Cheers

Jon

[barkis]

A good result Phils. Afocal is not the easiest configuration to capture an Image. Saturn looks good.

Ron.

[Doc]

Very good effort. Exposed very well and you can even see banding on Saturn.

[JCJC]

Great afocal image philsail1.

Jordan

[Psychobilly]

I now know why I havent posted a Saturn Image yet... Thats a corker Phil your Afocal results are far better than anything I have managed to achieved at prime yet

Peter...

[SteelRat]

Nice shot that Phil good work matey.

[AllanJ]

Nice image, Phil, and thanks for including the detailed camera settings.

Allan

[gfletcher]

For afocal that is brilliant Phil

regards

Graham