Clear Skies

[cjmarsh81]

Must have been pretty clear skies last night. I was able to view Saturn with my 5mm through a 2x Barlow with an approx mag of 480x. Best I have ever seen it. Very narrow FOV, and hard to follow with my Dob, but it looked really good. :cool:

[mickoking]

What details did you see? My best ever view of Saturn was thru a Dob.

[cjmarsh81]

I could see the cassini division really well, and I could see some detail on the planet itself. I have seen this before, but never at 480x. You know those really good clear pictures of Saturn you see in magazines etc. It looked just like that. Better than I thought possible through my Dob. :cool:

Tried to hold my digicam up to the eyepiece but just couldn't get anything decent out of it. I am working on a round-about way of using my digicam as a video camera and am going to mount it to the eyepiece. I have downloaded DP's guide to processing and when I work out a way of attaching my camera will try some shots. Watch this space!