Saturn Dec 16 UT

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

My first Saturn for this season. Was at pretty low elevation, and the seeing is never good early in the morning at my location, so the main purpose was to experiment with capture settings on the camera.

I'm reasonably pleased with this for a start. Boy, shooting in colour is so much less hassle!

C11 + TV 2.5x PowerMate + DBK21AU618.AS.

-Ivan

[asimov (John)]

Yes nice start Ivan. It'll be awhile before I can shoot it; damned trees!

[John K]

Very nice Saturn for so early on in the season!

Some good seeing might be heading to Melbourne!?

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Yes nice start Ivan. It'll be awhile before I can shoot it; damned trees!

Yes, well the real show is in April/May next year, but of course I know the reality is we want to shoot as soon as we possibly can!

Originally Posted by John K

Very nice Saturn for so early on in the season!

Some good seeing might be heading to Melbourne!?

Maybe so. The jetstream prediction for last night/this morning was actually pretty bad, but the seeing wasn't so bad, so who knows?

My philosophy: get out there regardless, and Good luck!

-Ivan

[Quark (Trevor)]

A promising start Ivan, we have much to look forward to with Saturn.

Regards
Trevor

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Quark

A promising start Ivan, we have much to look forward to with Saturn.

Regards
Trevor

Thanks Trevor, as you say, much to look forward to.

-Ivan

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice, Ivan!

[MortonH]

Awesome result for such low elevation!

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Nice, Ivan!

Thank you Laurie.

Originally Posted by MortonH

Awesome result for such low elevation!

Thanks Morton, Saturn was at about 24 Degrees elevation at the time the video was taken.

-Ivan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

very nice image for 24 deg! regards ray

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

very nice image for 24 deg! regards ray

Thanks Ray, I was pleasantly surprised by the result.

-Ivan