Better Seeing

[Mickoid]

After several nights of poor seeing, it was nice to find it improving for a change. Before clouds ended my session I had some reasonably stable periods but as is the case so far, Mars still refuses to cooperate in showing much detail. I have given a comparison of photographing Mars and an orange to show the orange is still more interesting to look at.

Saturn and Mars were shot through my 8 inch Newt, eyepiece projection using the Canon 550d, movie crop mode.

Orange was shot with a 18-55mm Canon lens at f5.6 400iso 1.5 seconds with the same Canon 550d in a very dark room illuminated by a torch.

[Mav]

LOL I think I saw an Orange Rover or was that an Aphid? Nice shot of Saturn.

[Symon]

Nice shots mate the dust storm on Mars in the third shot is intense :lol:
regards
Simon

[rcheshire]

#3:thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Wow that Saturn shot is good. Can even see parts of the Enke ring.

[Imme]

Love it

[Mickoid]

Thanks Mav, you've got good eyes, I didn't think anyone would pick that out.


Thanks Simon, it's what happens when you leave the fruit in the bowl for too long. The dust settles if it's not cleaned.


#3 certainly has the most surface detail.


Thanks Kevin, it's been a tough one for planetary this year. Last night's seeing was not expected to much good but I ignored the computer modeling and it paid off.


Thanks Jon, a bit of humour never goes astray, though I hope I have not shown disrespect to the seriousness of this hobby!

[Symon]

Hi mate just a quick question, what ep magnification was that?
Regards
Simon

[Mickoid]

200X but with Movie Crop mode which uses a smaller portion of the sensor, it appears a larger scale than the ep magnification generates on the full frame.

[Nobull92]

beautiful shot of Saturn