Titan transit

[matt]

Managed to capture the first 90 minutes of last night's transit.

The seeing wasn't good enough to take the 3x barlow with the C9.25, so I backed off and used the 2.5x Powermate.

The trade-off? Crisper images at the expense of image scale:sadeyes:

Still...it was nice to capture the event.

The first image is pre ingress, taken through a red filter. The second is during transit through a green filter.

If you look close enough you can even see the gap between the planet and the rings.

Anyway....I'll work up some colour images soon, and perhaps a short animation.

Thanks for looking.

[iceman]

Nicely done Matt, excellent work.

Can't wait to see more.

I got clouded out an hour before it begun :(

[Quark]

Well done Matt,

Look foreword to your animation.

Regards
Trevor

[StarScream]

Thats brilliant, thanks for sharing Matt.
I only saw Titan for the first time a couple of weeks ago, which was exciting enough.
So I guess Titan doesn't orbit Saturn at the equator but in the northern hemisphere ???

[Dennis]

Hi Matt

That entrée looks very promising – can’t wait for the main course and the pudding!

Cheers

Dennis

[cookie8]

Nice capture of a rare event. Not many people in NSW can have a shot like this.

[Dennis]

Hi Matt

Here’s my (best) effort with the DBK21 colour CCD camera. This was taken at 01:22am and is probably the best of the bunch. The other 14 AVI’s were more impacted by the variable seeing, so I’m not too sure if there will be an animation from me.:shrug:

My 1 ¼ inch adapter has a broad ring that pushes the DBK21 further away from the rear element of the x2.5 PowerMate and I think this effectively converts it to a x2.1 or 2.0 ‘ish Barlow.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Wow Dennis that's fantastic! Beautiful colours and very sharp.
You should be very pleased.

[StephenM]

Great images Matt and Dennis!
Well done.

Cheers,
Stephen

[firstlight]

I agree, great images.

I grabbed a heap of data, and here are a couple of hard and fast ones... rushed processing, etc.
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[gregbradley]

Fantastic. I love these planet images.

Greg.

[jjjnettie]

Top shots Matt.!!

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: nice pics Matt :D

[Quark]

Top job there Dennis,
Nice colour and very sharp, well done.

Regards
Trevor

[gb_astro]

Trevor, how did The Sky timings compare to the real thing?

gb.

[Paul Haese]

Nice image all, colours are superb in Dennis's image.

Unfortunately I am yet to capture a transit, that beast cloud is causing some trouble in the equation.

[pgc hunter]

excellent shots guys. This is actually the first time I've ever seen an image of Saturnian transit.

[edwardsdj]

Awesome images Matt. I was thrilled to see this event visually but was too excited to take images.

Really looking forward to more images.

[matt]

Hi...and thanks all.

Have been too busy to work up the animation. I'm hoping it'll be completed over the next few days.

Thanks for the kind comments. It was fun to capture this event.

[firstlight]

I was in a rush last night to properly congratulate Matt and Dennis for their excellent images. I was just using the 4" Vixen with 2x barlow. The 4x powermate had no chance early in the evening, although at the end of my session I might have grabbed something, but it was all too hard at 01:30 :doh:.

Matt, I've beat you to the animation with my own poor images... I can't wait to see yours.

Modded toucam pro, 60 sec @5/sec, Registax 4, dropped the saturation in CS2, animation in Animation Shop 2.

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Cheers
Tony

[iceman]

Well done Tony, great capture.

[CoolhandJo]

great work!

[Dennis]

Excellent work Tony - you're really making that 4" Vixen perform very well given its limited aperture. I see you must have been imaging right up to around 2:30-3:00am?

I pulled the plug at 3:00am as I was hallucinating due to sleep deprivation from my all-nighter the day/night before.

Cheers

Dennis

[firstlight]

No Dennis, I pulled the plug at about 1:30... I was trying to justify calling "sick" at work, but I was starting to doze at the scope and I still had to pack everything away before getting to bed at about 2:30.

The text at the bottom of each image is the date and time according to K3CCD.

Oh yeah... Forgot to mention images are 150% of originals.

Tony

[AlexN]

Fantastic work mate! So devastated I wasnt able to get amongst it.. :(

Great work.

Alex.