saturn friday night

[ving]

seeing was bout 4-5/10
scope 200x1200 small is with 2x barlow and large is same with extention tube and a bit of stretching.
camera: lpi

[iceman]

Nice one Dave, you'd do well with a ToUcam me reckons!

[matt]

Good work, Dave.:thumbsup:

I reckon Mike's on the money with his comment.

You'd kill it with a ToUcam if you can squeeze that from an LPI;)

[DobDobDob]

I was out looking at Saturn on the same night through binoculars, and after quite a lot of digital reproduction, I believe the image below is very close to what I saw. The point to doing this is to try and show the relative difference between images, from a baseline viewpoint. True my memory can never truly be used but in a graphical sense the two images side by side show a marked difference (as you would expect). I hope you don't mind me borrowing your image for this demonstration.

[beren]

:thumbsup: nice mate

[[1ponders]]

Nicely done ving :cool2:

[fringe_dweller]

onya David :thumbsup: keep em coming :)

[astroperson]

Dang! Thats a nice image!

When I was last capturing Saturn, I was sketching in the red light, from a Yasco 5-inch reflector on the roof of my parent's place in Beaumaris (outside of Melbourne) in 1976 at age 15.

As an aside, with the trusty paper and pencil, over a period of many days, I managed to produced quite an impressive stop motion animation of Saturn's moons as they orbited their mother planet. Aint it funny though, I gravitated to film-making and not astronomy. My mistake.:lol:

[acropolite]

Excellent work Ving.:thumbsup:

[ving]

yeah i recon i could do better with a toucam :)

thanks fer tha coments :)

[davidpretorius]

what a great job vingo!

surely cheryl will now let you have a toucam :D

[ving]

lol, more than likely not... just spent $2k keeping the car on the road.

[rmcpb]

Great work Dave. Its amazing what people can pull out of basic gear when they push it, keep it up :)

[Ric]

Nice imaging Ving, you've captured some banding and ring divisions as well.

Great stuff

[erick]

Ron, a yellow "star" with "ears"! That's what I first saw. I'm now more clearly seeing the rings separated from the planet. The other night, a couple of experienced guys looking through my 30x100s said the rings are clearly seen. I think, as we move on in our orbit, Saturn's shadow starts to fall across the rings on one side and that will aid our ability to resolve the rings at 20x and 30x. Sometime in last May, observing around 7-8pm should be the maximum shadow, I believe.

[seeker372011]

I think I like the first image better-seems sharper to my eye
Its a fine effort

[DobDobDob]

That's good news, because looking at Saturn is just so much fun, if as you say it gets better, I can't wait. Tell me honestly, the rough image I provided below, is this how you see it, or have seen it, given some leeway for my shaky drawing?

[Miaplacidus]

I like 'em. Thanks David.

Brian.

[jjjnettie]

Nice image Mr Ving.
Good fun isn't it.

[Phil]

Great photos Ving well done.
Phil

[ving]

thanks peeps :)

[Doug]

If you're allowed out after dark you could always drop in and use the ToUcam here y'know.

[ving]

allowed out after dark :lol:

thanks doug :)

**edit**
did you know that according to the distance indicator under your location you are at a rosemeadow that is 109km away from the rosemeadow i live in?