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Saturn from Sydney last night
Folks,
First clear night for ages (when I've been free) so I'd setup before sunset and was raring to go, then after carefully aligning my mount the clouds rolled in.
Needless to say, a little patience and thread spotting here on IIS and the clouds disappeared and left a good few hours of clear, and much to my surprise some half decent seeing. SkippySky was forecasting 7/10.
Visually, Saturn looked very much like this, the shading in the planet's bands and the rings were quite pronounced, the Cassini division was very...erm...divided, and there were hints of the Encke gap.
AS!2 did a very good job IMO, and for once I prefer it to what I've managed to eek out from Registax. This was taken with a QHY5L-ii (osc) on the back of my C11HD/EQ6, and is a stack of 15% of 8000 frames.
Suggestions and improvements always welcomed!
Cheers,
Dunk
Last edited by Camelopardalis; 29-04-2015 at 04:10 PM.
Reason: Added a slightly warmer rendition.
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