Saturn 31.10.2010

[riklaunim]

I've managed to capture Saturn at dawn. The seeing was an epic failure whole night, but I've managed to get some basic images. The first ring of the season, return of the lord of the rings...

~f/10 Pro Planet 804

~f/20 Pro Planet 742

Basler Ace acA640-100gm, SCT 8", +/- GSO 2x Barlow. The tilt is noticable, and it will get even better this oposition:

[Breakintheclouds]

It's nice to see that little fella again! Unfortunately for me, I have no Eastern horizon and so won't see Saturn until it's quite high in the sky, so thanks for the pics to give me something to look forward to.

[Kokatha man]

Heh - hee Piotr.....I was wondering when some enterprising fella would take a ping at The Ringed One.....should've suspected you'd possibly be the person....!

Great to see those rings opened up, hopefully next year will be a good Saturn Season.....but I'll most probably wait a month or so myself before taking aim.....

[yeti monster]

Great stuff. If this darned wind would stop, and the cleods scoot awa, I might stand a chance of taking a peek at Saturn.

[dweller25]

Great pictures. The rings are opening nicely now. I'm looking forward to seeing Saturn again.

[Pete Presland]

at last The rings are opening again cant wait!

[bus_ter]

Wow First Saturn of the Season! Looking forward to the Saturn images to start coming in now.. only so many Jupiters I can take :-)

Like others I have no Eastern horizon, however I may be tempted to go and find a spot early one morning if the forecast looks good :-)

[johnkirkpatrick]

wish I had an eastern horizon!! Cant wait to see her again, last time I saw her it was in my old 5" reflector and my highest mag was x65 at the time lol, so never saw much at all, looking forward to it with my new setup.

[Space Cowboy]

Great to see those rings opening! Great work Rik!

[beamish]

Wondered who'd be first to post a Saturn pic !

Good to see and better still to come ! Good on yer Piotr

[riklaunim]

Thats Saturn is a ninja. Tried multiple times. It was either clouds on east or to bright to spot it. Very faint he is

[abumuhannadh]

any chance of getting the huge ring?

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[AztecastroMcJ]

nice 1st capture of Season of the ringed 1, nice 2 see ring angle,

looking gud for ring angle in month or 2 should be easier to capture then 2,

poor east horizon for me 2

well done

regards James

[bigal1]

Great to see Saturn on the return plus them rings look so much better when opened up , nice early captures .

[Revs]

You did well to get that with it being so low. nice one

I'm yet to see Saturn through a scope, I canni wait!

[riklaunim]

any chance of getting the huge ring?

That outside faint ring is capturable only in NIR/SWIR so with cameras unavailable to amateurs, and probably not on Earth where water vapour etc. absorbs a lot in NIR/SWIR.

[bus_ter]

I'm determined now to 'bag' Saturn asap. I live on the East coast, so a short trip gives me a perfectly flat and dark horizon. For all the benefits of the clocks going back it does make capturing Saturn a Stupid-O'Clock affair! It'll be worth it though to get a good image, plus I'll get to see the Sun rise too. I'm ashamed to say I've seen far too few Sun rises in my lifetime.

[Gadget]

Great early image can’t wait to see it for myself

Kevin

[russ]

Great pics considering how low it is still. And something to whet the appetite for the near future.

[brianb]

Yeah - grab all the chances that you can, Saturn is on his way south - but it'll be another month or so before it'll be worth my while tring to observe/image him. (Bad SE horizon)

[russ]

Brian is right, after the coming 2010/11 season Saturn just sinks into the horizon. By 2013/4 Saturn will be struggling to break free of the horizon. Sadly Jupiter follows Saturn's lead. 2014 onwards will not be planetary observing heaven.

[SeedyF]

2014 onwards will not be planetary observing heaven.

Nooooooooooo

And I can't see any horizon from my garden I need to get myself out of town and up a hill. Saturn is the most rewarding planet to observe (maybe because it was my first) and I can't wait to get a chance to see it again and try out imaging it.

[TheThing]

Stop with Saturn already! I haven't had time to get to grips with Jupiter yet!

Nice set of images though. Like re-visiting an old friend.

[oldfruit]

Nice to see Saturn again. Looks so much better now the rings are opening up again.