saturn + Titan + Dione, Feb 24

[bird]

Here's the first processed image from the titan transit last night. Poor seeing prevented me from getting much worthwhile data before this point, so I lost most of titans shadow.

But I think I got Dione in transit, so that's a nice bonus.

cheers, Bird

[Dennis]

Hi Anthony

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an image from you, but boy, with such a cracking shot, it was well worth the wait. Fantastic results!

Cheers

Dennis

[Lester]

Thats a beautiful image Anthony.

[cookie8]

So nice!!! Thanks for sharing.:eyepop:

[erick]

Thanks Anthony. Nice capture. Well I'm now satisfied that I wouldn't have picked up Dione or Enceladus on the planet visually, so am glad I was clouded out later in the night and retreated to bed.

[RobF]

Beautiful work Anthony :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Super shot Anthony.

Greg.

[Screwdriverone]

Fabulous! absolutely stunning shot. Well done.

Cheers

Chris

[Kevnool]

Great capture there Bird.....cheers Kev.

[jjjnettie]

Thanks for Posting, it's a beaut capture.

[Quark]

Anthony what a beautiful image,

Absolutly stunning work, a credit to you.
Appart from some high cirrus early on, it was a good night out here. I took my last avi at 16:10 UTC. Have a mountain of data, even some possible storm or cloud structure in the SEBZ.

I love the detail in your image and am blown away that you picked up Dione on your RGB image, I only have it on my R channel images, think I have Enceladus also, but only a hint of it, again on the R channel.

Is this image with your old setup or is this a new CCD?
Shame you are so far away, I would love to drop in for a chat.

Regards
Trevor

[Jen]

:eyepop: beautiful pic Anthony :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Well done Anthony, glad you were able to capture it.

Beautiful image.

[h0ughy]

thats a great image, love it

[Paul Haese]

Well done Anthony, I thought you said you did not have anything???;)
Only criticism is I think the planet is a little on the blue side for my taste. Great to see a couple of guys got an image.

[rogerg]

Excellent image :thumbsup:

[bird]

Thanks guys,

This is probably one of the few images taken over the 4 hour period of the transit that's any good - the conditions were very unstable for most of the time. I might get one other good image from around 2am local time but not likely to get much more out of the data.

Trevor, I'd love to have a catchup sometime, maybe at a star party somewhere... or if one of us is passing through, not that I'm likely to get to Broken Hill anytime soon :-) But if you're ever around Canberra then give me a yell.

This was taken with my 13.1" scope (LEXX) and the Dragonfly2 PGR camera. 60 seconds per channel, at 25fps in R and G, 20fps in B. Stacked and processed the best 1000 frames from each channel as chosen by ninox.

cheers, Bird

[tonybarry]

Great image Bird. Something to try for myself! although the weather has been poor here in Sydney.

Regards,
Tony Barry

[tempestwizz]

As a relative newbie to planetary photography, but have dabbled a little into deeper space, I'm a little intrigued as to why Titan (and Diane)appear(s) so dark against Saturn, given they are both/all illuminated by the same source. Is this an issue of relative contrast or am I missing something?

Excellent result nevertheless.

BC

[firstlight]

:eyepop: WOW.

Don't have any other words to convey my respect for your work.

[bird]

G'day BC. The difference is the albedo, and in this case I was wrong about Dione, what we see in the image here is it's shadow, not Dione itself. The large dark spot is titan as it's albedo is lower than Saturn.

cheers, Bird

[Blue Fire]

Fantastic! It's work like that that really excites the astronomer in me. Thanks so much for sharing!

[Garyh]

That is a ripper Bird! Still came out soo nice even with the seeing being not ideal!
Nice!