Saturn with bright moons - 11 Jun 2015

[Sebbie (Sebastian)]

Hi everyone,

Last week's Saturn + satellites taken in good seeing conditions with TeleVue 2x Barlow (F20).

Planet image is a WinJUPOS composite of four three minute drizzle stacks 1500 frames each. 12 minute total capture time (10:42 pm to 10:54 pm LT).

Moons image is a drizzle stack of 80 frames taken over 3 minutes (11:06 pm to 11:09 pm LT).

Quite happy with resolution on these.. polar hexagon is nicely resolved and there are some blemishes detectable at high latitudes.

Thanks for looking,

Sebastian

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Those pictures are amazing. Well done.

[kkara4 (Krishan)]

Originally Posted by Sebbie

Hi everyone,

Last week's Saturn + satellites taken in good seeing conditions with TeleVue 2x Barlow (F20).

Planet image is a WinJUPOS composite of four three minute drizzle stacks 1500 frames each. 12 minute total capture time (10:42 pm to 10:54 pm LT).

Moons image is a drizzle stack of 80 frames taken over 3 minutes (11:06 pm to 11:09 pm LT).

Quite happy with resolution on these.. polar hexagon is nicely resolved and there are some blemishes detectable at high latitudes.

Thanks for looking,

Sebastian

Excellent images sebastian!

[Sebbie (Sebastian)]

Thanks Adrian and Krishan, it's true.. steady seeing makes all the difference

Here's a original moon capture pic and a link to raw stack animation.

http://astrob.in/full/188989/0/

Cheers!
Seb

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent set of images there Seb

Mike

[yoda776 (Matt)]

Agreed. Really like these images and capture of the moons. Top job.