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Old 21-07-2018, 01:12 PM
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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.
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Old 21-07-2018, 01:39 PM
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LOL I think I saw an Orange Rover or was that an Aphid? Nice shot of Saturn.
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Old 21-07-2018, 02:35 PM
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Nice shots mate the dust storm on Mars in the third shot is intense
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Old 21-07-2018, 04:19 PM
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Old 21-07-2018, 04:45 PM
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Wow that Saturn shot is good. Can even see parts of the Enke ring.
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Old 21-07-2018, 05:00 PM
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Old 21-07-2018, 06:17 PM
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LOL I think I saw an Orange Rover or was that an Aphid? Nice shot of Saturn.
Thanks Mav, you've got good eyes, I didn't think anyone would pick that out.

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Nice shots mate the dust storm on Mars in the third shot is intense
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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.

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#3 certainly has the most surface detail.

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

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Thanks Jon, a bit of humour never goes astray, though I hope I have not shown disrespect to the seriousness of this hobby!
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Hi mate just a quick question, what ep magnification was that?
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Old 23-07-2018, 11:20 PM
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Hi mate just a quick question, what ep magnification was that?
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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.
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Old 29-07-2018, 07:54 PM
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beautiful shot of Saturn
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