Another Saturn and Mars from Melbourne

[Stefan Buda]

Amazingly the howling wind has disappeared by this morning and I was able to have a go at some imaging.
The seeing was rather mediocre but the high altitude helped. It is the first time that I managed to properly image the polar hexagon on Saturn.
Although at this image scale my DMK21AU04 had no hope of producing G and B images, so this is only the R.

[John K]

Great images Stefan - even more so for Saturn as well!

Good to see I was not the only early morning owl this morning in Melbourne imaging!

Cheers,

John.

[bird]

+1, lovely images

[Saturn%5]

Super effort Stefan, Mars looks great.

[batema]

Both images look amazing. Well done. Can you tell me the scope and any magnification used.

Mark

[icytailmark]

please send your weather up to sydney

[Sebbie]

Incredible detail on Saturn Stephan, congrats on this high power capture.

Hexagon system is as clearly defined as it would be in a polar projection!

Rgds
Sebastian

[Maurice]

Great detail on both Mars & Saturn Stefan.

How many frames did you stack in each filter for the Mars shot?

[MarkJ]

Hi Stefan,

The visibility of the hexagon is very very impressive.

Mark

[U.K.Cowboy]

Super images Stefan!

[Stefan Buda]

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Mark (batema), I used my old planetary workhorse, the 405 Dall-Kirkham which has 6500mm focal length and an ancient Barlow working at about 1.7x.

Maurice, I captured 2 minute avi's for each colour at 30fps and stacked 600 from each.

For Saturn I ran at 15fps for 4min and used 800 frames.

[acarleton]

Amazing picture, great to see the hexagonal polar cloud so clearly

[Solar]

Excellent results Stefan.:thanx:

[Quark]

Excellent work with both Stefan, top stuff.

Regards
Trevor

[allan gould]

Really stunning detail on both Mars and Saturn.wish I had your seeing.
Allan

[Nikolas]

Stefan which direction in melbourne are you the pictures are stunning

[dutch2]

Fantastic job, well done.:thumbsup:

[Stefan Buda]

Thanks again for the comments.

Nik, I'm in St Kilda East.

[Nikolas]

Wow and you get that good seeing from inner melb????
I'm in Glen Iris and the sky glow toward the north west is baaaaad

[PacoYepes]

Spectacular shots.

Greetings.

[Carmen4594]

Stefan the detail is superb, especially Saturn's pole!

Carmen

[John K]

Sky glow does not make a difference - its about the seeing conditions.

I am imaging from Brunswick which is just 5.5 kms North of the CBD.

Autumn is the best time of the year for seeing in Melbourne and SE Australia.