First Saturn of the season with my 5.5 inch refractor

[jonathancd]

I stayed up until 3am last night and enjoyed the warm night of my NE London garden to wait for Saturn to rise.  This image was captured at 3am and the skies were pretty steady.

Imaging scope is a TEC140 with a 2.5x barlow, Altair 585c camera and Altair RGB filter.  Captured with Sharpcap and processed with Autostakkert3 (best 40% of 5000 frames) and Registax for sharpening anf colour balance.

Thanks for looking.

 

 

 

Edited July 20 by jonathancd

[Mark at Beaufort]

Excellent image of Saturn. I am glad that you were able to stay up until 3am.

[Space Cowboy]

Nicely captured!

[Kon]

Nice capture. You also have some nice banding.

[CraigT82]

Yes that is a very nice capture - small but perfectly formed! 

[JeremyS]

Wonderful 👍🏻

[Mr Spock]

Lovely image 👍

[Planetary Observer]

Very nice indeed 😎

[dweller25]

Excellent image, it’s been a while since I saw the rings edge on.