First Saturn for the season, and for my C11!

[AlexN]

Hi everyone...

Firstly... Absolutely stoked to see clear skies in Brisbane!!

Seeing, not too bad... not too great..
Transparency, about the same.
Humidity - Off the scale!

C11, 2x barlow, DBK31 on EQ6 Pro.

First planetary image with the C11.. Very excited... Its nothing special, but given the conditions, I think its actually fairly good.. Above the tip of the rings on the left, Titan!! My first time capturing one of Saturns moons!

Ahhh.. Aperture is sweet...

Alex.

[gbeal]

Nice one Alex. I just read your "What do you do" escapade with glee as well.
Now once it is "up there" you will be laughing.
Maybe I need a decent planet cam after all.
Gary

[leinad]

Nice capture! :thumbsup:

Last night, I dont know if anyone was out at 3am in Perth, but the ISS passed Saturn by 1-2degrees.

I watched it last night slowly drifting above and then turn towards Saturn in the NE.

[matt]

Hmmm. Never seen the ISS change direction or 'turn' before. It usually maintains a constant path.

Anyhoo...good work, Alex. I admire your commitment, in the face of obviously less than ideal conditions.

[RB]

Not bad Alex, it's a little bit too green for my liking but a good start to the season.

It was amazing to view it in Rick's 10" Dob the other night at the Pony Club.
I can't wait to try and get some images too, now that the rings are edge on.

[matt]

Yes....RB is right. Tiz a tad too green.

[AlexN]

Thanks guys... yes it is perhaps a bit green (being red/green color blind makes planetary processing hell)

I've got about 32gb more data to sift through, we'll see I go... :) After seeing the limitations of the DBK31's framerate for the first time last night, I think I might be in the market for a DMK21 and filters soon... :S


Cheers.
Alex.

[Matty P]

Great work Alex. Some nice detail showing.

I love the image scale! I'm so used to my C8 + 2x barlow image scale, which doesn't even compete to your C11's.

Anyway, keep it up and I'm looking forward to more. ;)

:thumbsup:

[Jen]

:eyepop: nice work Alex i wouldnt care if it was purple :lol: as long as we could tell it was saturn its all good :lol::lol: im still dreaming of taking an awsome pic of saturn one day :lol::thumbsup:

[Dylan]

Jan,
Hope that your wishes happen one day! Do post that saturn photo here !

[Jen]

Aww thanks Dylan :thumbsup: thank you i hope so too :D
And dont you worry when i finally get a shot of saturn everyone here will hear about :lol::lol::lol:

[AlexN]

Jen.. In the mean time, you could work out how to make a saturn mosaic using emoticons! :D

[Jen]

:lol::lol: lol Alex now dont get me started :P:rofl:

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