May 11th-Mars, Saturn and double stars

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F39, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB filters.

Seeing was variable settling down occasionally mostly near the meridian giving a good Mars and Saturn. Watching those still Saturn rings with some short lived unsteadyness rippling at times was good. Saturns seeing was fair so I went to have a look at Antares and Beta Sco doubles in fair seeing at long FL, I went back to Saturn and seeing was good again for 10mins at least then it went wobbly again.

I managed to get the Mars Projection to ROTATE.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/40231940@N03/14161378445/

I used WinJupos Ephemerides section to animate my own projection but file was 300MB long. I did not know WJ could do this so I am very pleased indeed.

Thanks, John.

[Amaranthus (Barry)]

Interestingly, your animation is already on the Orion Optics website:
http://www.orionoptics.co.uk/VX/vx14.html

[John Hothersall]

Thanks Barry, I emailed John from OO and he was pleased with the rotation image I made, he occasionally looks in on IIS forum for my images but they are not usually this good.

OrionOptics make such smooth mirrors mine has a wavefront error of 1/10.5 which is amazing but seeing is rarely very good which is a shame.

Regards, John.

[Amaranthus (Barry)]

You definitely know you're shooting well when the manufacture features your work as 'what can be done' with the equipment!