Saturn and satellites 3/5 Jun 2015

[Sebbie]

Hi all,

I was blessed with two amazing nights of steady seeing last week. Braving sub-zero temperatures I was able to push my SCT to amazing focal ratios (F36 and F40 with the ASI cam).

Here are some of the captures of Saturn and its moons I was able to record on Wednesday and Friday night. Majority are WinJUPOS de-rotated drizzle stacks, wide field satellite image has been composited in Photoshop CS6.

Animation links
http://astrob.in/full/185963/0/
http://astrob.in/full/185967/0/

Thanks for looking,
Sebastian

[kkara4]

Excellent images Sebastian!

[Regulus]

Beautiful images!

Trevor

[Quark]

A fine body of work Seb, hope more of the same conditions are on the way.

Cheers
Trevor

[Somnium]

fantastic images, my favourite is definitely the shot of Titan. well done

[ags_]

Very nice indeed, I don't envy you the sub zero temps though.

regards, Phil

[Sebbie]

Thanks for words of praise guys, been busy working lately so did not get a chance to respond earlier..

Working on June 11 dataset now, it's been raining of late.

Cheers,
Seb

[astronobob]

How good are they, mighty fine images Sebastian - may I ask how you end up with F36 ? is that using which barlows ? cant figure F36 can you ?
Cheers

[John K]

The fine Saturn images on ISS continue - nice work - especially on Titan!

[myoda]

Wow, amazing images.

12" really does seem to be a good aperture.

[Camelopardalis]

Great work Sebbie :thumbsup:

[TimberLand]

The quiet nights of Canberra have given you some fantastic data. All are very well done. How far have we come in tens years.

[Sebbie]

Thanks Bob, John, Abhi, Dunk and Justin. Yes it was an exceptional night for imaging if not a bit uncomfortable temperature wise ;)

Bob, I was using TeleVue 2x Barlow combined with William Optics 1.6x binoviewer nosepiece.

http://www.williamoptics.com/accessories/binoviewer_features.php

Cheers,
Seb