Saturn 1 June 2017

[Paul Haese]

Imaged Saturn last night after returning home from the football. Seeing was variable but improved nearly Saturn reaching the zenith.

Of interest is the Seeliger effect starting to show itself, the northern polar hex and if you look carefully you can see the northern part of the planet through Cassini's division.

I have included the red channel which was certainly the best of the channels. The blue channel was so bad that it has badly affected the colouring despite my manipulating the channels.

[Star Catcher]

Looking good Paul. Back on track with your planet work :)
Ted

[johnnyt123]

OMG!
thats all I have to say...

does any one have a C14 for sale??

[glend]

Inspiring Paul! You are the Planet Master. Can you share your equipment used, other than the C14, like barlow, camera?

[Paul Haese]

Thanks Ted, it took viewing some excellent images coming out of Australia to get my butt back into gear. Though I am not liking the sleep deprived feeling. Two nights in a row is starting to bring on the flaky feeling.



Thanks John. I recommend bigger still. Bigger the better. Though a C14 is fairly manageable.





Thanks Glen. Maybe master of equipment and perhaps processing but that is all for nought without the good seeing. The seeing is the real master in this game. I had to strike a really good night sometime. This image is from the night before last and the seeing was not as good. Last night the seeing was sublime. Good stuff to enter for next years Malins.

The equipment I am using is C14 with 2x TV barlow, Nautilus electronic filter wheel, with Astronomiks type two filters and ZWO 174MM camera. All that sitting on my crap old CGE mount which has more backlash in it than a shaky old tripod. Cooling of the scope is managed by a peltier cooling system I installed in 2007.

[RickS]

Excellent, Paul :thumbsup:

[batema]

Fantastic image Paul. As is also your Jupiter. It must be amazing to see something that clear on your computer screen. Shame about the blue channel.

Mark.