Saturn 13th April-good seeing very briefly

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F34.7, PGRFlea3, Astrodon filters + IR742nm.

Seeing again looked promising but deteriorated to awful, but got one good set early on before 10pm then the downturn quickly followed.

R RGB 1155hrs UT.
IR 1201hrs UT.

Thanks, John.

[asimov]

Nice work again John. You are doing it right here in QLD - Must be available every night ALL night to get the seeing.

[Quark]

Nice work John, its a real bummer when conditions change so rapidly but these images were certainly worth the effort.

Regards
Trevor

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Good shots!
Especially given the circumstances
I haven't seen Saturn since February thanks to cloud, so I appreciate the reminder.

[Clayton]

Still VERY nice John. Good to get at least one when things turn bad.

[strongmanmike]

Yep great shots, for an Englishman you sure take nice shots from down under :P probably just about the best coming out of Australia even..?..go home! :mad2: :lol:

Mike

[John Hothersall]

Thanks everyone, as for going back home - not likely, weather here is still way better and seeing has been pretty good by the coast although Aussie weather is mad with storms that spring from nowhere, howling wind at night, cyclones, floods, sandflies, plagues of one sort or another and nasty bats. In the UK its just cloud and drizzle! In the Summer in the UK you cannot image for 3 months owing to astronomical twilight which you don't get here and planets never get very high up - So very happy!

John.

[strongmanmike]

Awww ok, you can stay :P

[Shiraz]

Very fine images John. Regards Ray.