22 Feb 2014 Saturn occultation from the doghouse

[h0ughy]

bugger that ruddy cloud.:mad2: anyway here is my poor old effort:help:. i am sure someone got a decent shot somewhere?:question: the hardest part was it being daylight and the level of brightness of both objects and the surrounding sky.:confused2: yes in other words its rubbish

i will order the images so you can make a pseudo animation by scrolling through the images. :lol:

[h0ughy]

and this was the view, the clouds parted but then snuck back over the moon right on the crossing time.. as you can see it was taken with a ed80 and a dmk51

[Screwdriverone]

Umm, Dave?

Where is Saturn???

I set up too but for the life of me couldnt get the camera to see anything when the moon was clear and then when I finally got some images out and focus sorted, bleeding clouds all over it. Oh well, will try the night ones later this year...

Cheers

Chris

[h0ughy]

i was hoping you would go find and seek, but it is down around 3 to 4 o'clock position

[pvelez]

Found it!

Well done Dave

Pete

[h0ughy]

btw can someone cut down the neighbours palm tree - its due west ;)

[Screwdriverone]

Ahhhh, OK, thanks, I was viewing this on the ipad outside and couldnt see it for the life of me, now I am inside and you pointed it out, I can see it now. :)

Nice one, much better than my pictures, of which there is none, :shrug:

Chris

[Astroman]

Looks like a few people were plagued with clouds this morning. Hopefully the next one stays clear....

[h0ughy]

yes the root of discontent;)

[Astroman]

ahh didn't see the closer images before, great work David, looks like the cloud didn't completely ruin the experience.

[h0ughy]

would have liked to see the reappearance though;)

[tornado33]

Very nice, detail of Moon is very good. No surprise Saturn is faint as it is much further away from the Sun so its surface brightness is a fraction of the Moon's.
Scott

[doppler]

Just curious. The sky in my pics was blue and you can hardly see saturn , how do you get a black sky in the daytime shots?

[h0ughy]

:question: well its magic - the DMK51 is of course mono - then in the histogram you then slide the black end towards the bottom of the "mountain" from left to right - its dark;)

[RB]

I can see Saturn, but where's the moon?

.... oh wait there it is.

:P

[h0ughy]

your guide dog needs to go for a hearing test:P

[batema]

How many scopes do you have set up on that mount Dave? :)

[RB]

Mark the photos have been Photoshoped, no sane person has that many scopes on a mount. :lol:

Good work Sir Hough, at least you got to image it !

:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

there are 5 at the moment - each has a purpose.;)

[h0ughy]

:rofl:

yeah I would like to photoshop in a tak150 with a tak130 guide scope:rofl:

[RB]

Shut up you !

:lol:

[tornado33]

What is the Guiness Book of Records record for the number of telescopes fitted to a single mount :)

[h0ughy]

hey I heard that:P