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Originally Posted by noeyedeer
I have a 10" gso and love it. I have some tmb 6, 5 and 4 mm eye pieces and Saturn is never bigger the say the size of a pea. I can take an uncropped pic to show you what I mean (thou it was last year and I don't remember the specifics) thou it was my phone video held onto the ep and that's the frame I took when looking at the video. no editing.
realisticly you need to factor in that Saturn is a long way away compared to the moon. it will never be bigger than a pea sized object. the goodness of aperture is the light it gathers from an object be it millions of kms away or light years.
how does Jupiter look .. or has it gone beyond the point on no return for your viewing session? planets are only the beginning .. you can see so much more with your scope then just those.
have you seen omega centauri .. it's bigger than Saturn and just as spectacular and look sideways while looking at it and it'll pop and then you'll never forget that ball of stars ..
matt
ps I can post crappy hand held phone pics of Saturn if you want to compare .. but they don't do the justice of what's seen at the eyepiece
edit ok maybe I have big peas on steroids .. but it'll drift through the ep in a few seconds but won't be no bigger than a pea from what I remember
that pic is from a video frame on my HTC one xl held to the ep which I don't remember .. maybe a barlowed 9mm or one of the tmbs .. I dunno .. but it's defective quality is my hands and the video .. Saturn is crispy thou the ep. that's just for comparison thou .. the moon at the same length would show a few craters like this ..
the moon is an actual pic, with 114kb and Saturn is a frame from a vid and is 8kb ... I think I used the same ep. but something to compare about what you're expecting ..
sorry he 3rd pic is what you would see with the same ep as Saturn .. if you looked at the moon with it
edit: if you're really concerned, download stellarium. you can enter your scopes focal length, and eyepiece length and it will show you what the object would look it at magnification. it's a pretty cool piece of kit for free.
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Hi Matt, thanks for the pictures, they're brilliant for comparison. I'm away for a week but I had a go the night before I left and I was pretty happy with Saturn. It was small but sharp in the 30mm superview I just got then I pushed it all the way to the 9mm which was really great. I also 2x barlowed the 15mm and I thought that worked well. I'll for a few more times on the moon and planets before embarking on DSOs. Cheers