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bird
03-02-2008, 01:29 PM
After a long battle with resonances in the tracking system on my new mount I think I've finally got everything working...

Last night was reasonably clear, but there was haze around and the seeing was only average, maybe 6/10. I was very keen to try some more imaging so I stayed up and grabbed some Saturn data at about 3am.

With a great amount of luck I've caught the same storm feature that Mike and others have seen recently.

Capture:

PGR Dragonfly2 mono camera + Astronomik RGB filters
tv 5x barlow + extension = 7.7 x 1.8m = 13.8m focal length

R: 16fps for 90 seconds
G: 17fps for 90 seconds
B: 12fps for 90 seconds

Images are real size. You may have to click on the image again to see it real size, it's 1500 pixels wide :-)

cheers, Bird
Matty P
03-02-2008, 01:41 PM
Amazing capture Anthony. :thumbsup: Great detail and colour.

To put the icing on the cake you captured a Storm. :)
h0ughy
03-02-2008, 03:39 PM
never ceases to keep me intrigued , lovely work Anthony
iceman
03-02-2008, 04:34 PM
Nicely done Anthony, excellent work! Your storm is more defined than mine, because my capture time was almost 4 minutes! (hence rotational smearing) I didn't even know there was a storm when I was capturing :)

Colours very nice, now ready for the 8/10+ seeing!
Dennis
03-02-2008, 05:28 PM
Hi Anthony

An excellent Saturn and presentation of Rhea and the storm. I love these kind of “added value” presentations as they explore more than just the main picture of the planet, revealing more about the overall system to the viewer.

Cheers

Dennis
bird
03-02-2008, 06:06 PM
Seems like you can have either a nice low-noise image OR a well defined image on saturn cause it's so dim... until we get 24" cooled mirrors and perfect seeing :-)

cheers, Bird
rumples riot
03-02-2008, 06:41 PM
Lovely image Anthony.
edwardsdj
03-02-2008, 11:55 PM
You are the master Bird :)

It's great you managed to capture that storm seen by Mike.
davidpretorius
04-02-2008, 09:36 AM
what?
who?
when can i get one?

noice work moite
:thumbsup:
RB
04-02-2008, 09:57 AM
Wow beautiful work Anthony.
The colours and image scale are great !

I'm with Dennis, I like these 'added value' presentations.