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The Moon and Saturn - 3rd June 2015
Hi All,
Just sharing a couple of images I captured on 3rd June 2015.
The seeing was particularly clear so I decided to push the scope a bit harder then usual on Saturn.
Visually looking at Saturn through the 11mm Nagler with and without the 2.5X power mate, and through 5mm Celestron X-Cel eyepieces was crisp, big and detailed. As an experiment I tried the 2.5X powermate in combination with the 5mm eyepiece and granted the view was starting to go quite soft but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would for pushing the mirror so far past it's theoretical limit.
The first image is through a Celestron 2X Barlow Lens and the second if through a 5X TV Powermate.
I know the images are not as crisp as some posted here taken with bigger scopes but I'm happy with what my 8" SCT is delivering.
Just before packing up I thought I'd give the moon a go since I havent imaged the moon for quite a while.
Both images are taken with a IS DMK21au618 and LRGB filters.
The images of the moon were taken just through the IR Cut filter at native F10, the mosaic combined from 10 overlapping frames.
Thanks for looking.
Mariusz
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