Brisbane Saturn in very good seeing 13:48UT 10th March

[von Tom]

13:48UT 10th March 2012. EOS 600D, 5x Powermate, 12" SkyWatcher Dobsonian manually tracked. 3x HD video mode, 1/30sec, 30fps, ISO1600. Shown in 100% capture resolution.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[John Hothersall]

That looks wonderful, I got a good Mars but the rain came up the coast at midnight ending what looked like really promising conditions. Very good banding and a good sized result, manually tracked is even more impressive.

John.

[Dennis]

Excellent work Tom – huge image scale for your low tech tracking system!

I chickened out after some poor results from the previous evening and earlier in the day, so I’m glad to see this effort from the Brisbane crew!

Cheers

Dennis

[von Tom]

Thanks John and Dennis. The manual tracking isn't that bad, especially with being able to use the centre 1080x1920 pixels of an 18mp sensor. Here is a single frame - I used about 4000 of these for the image.

Tom