Saturn from earlier this morning.

[matt]

Well...

it appears I'm the only fella lucky enough to have had clear skies to have a crack at Saturn this morning...

and silly enough to do so in what was pretty yucky seeing (at best, 4.5/10)

Anyhoo... here it is.

Cassini Division is still quite pronounced and extending all the way to the year of the planet's globe.

If you look closely you'll also see a couple of faint moons (one just above the planet at about 12-30, the other off to the right toward the edge of the frame around 2-30pm)

[davidpretorius]

i rate this very highly Matt, well done.

great lot of banding, and given the shenigans over on SCP re getting an image, you have done very well young soldier

[Harb]

Nice Matt,
Can you let us know the specs.....
Might even have a go tonight after work myself

[matt]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

i rate this very highly Matt, well done.

great lot of banding, and given the shenigans over on SCP re getting an image, you have done very well young soldier

Cheers Davo

Hoping these Saturn and Jupiter seasons will add an extra stripe to my arm

Originally Posted by Harb

Nice Matt,
Can you let us know the specs.....
Might even have a go tonight after work myself

Harb

My usual - C9.25, ToUcam Pro II, 3x Televue Barlow.

ToUcam set to 1/25th of a second exposure, gain around 70%, brightness about 60%

Captured at 10fps for 180 seconds (1800 frames total) in K3CCDTools. Stacked the best 350 frames.

Baader IR/UV cut filter.

Cheers

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Nice Pic Matt. I have clearish sky tonight and I don't have legs on my new EQ6

Now, maybe if I hand hold the EQ6 . . .

[matt]

You gotta watch those EQ6s, Ken.

They're great mounts but prone to getting legless now and then

Monday, mate. Monday, you'll have it all set up and then we'll see some sweeeeeet imaging

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

and I start Afternoon shift this week

Daytime to tinker, go to work at 3pm, back at 11:30pm in time to set up

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Good one Matt, I was out to try again this morning but the awful seeing that rolled in around 3am put an end to that. Saturn went from nice to a fuzzball in an instant, followed by the clouds about 15 minutes later :-(

cheers, Bird

[matt]

Originally Posted by bird

Good one Matt, I was out to try again this morning but the awful seeing that rolled in around 3am put an end to that. Saturn went from nice to a fuzzball in an instant, followed by the clouds about 15 minutes later :-(

cheers, Bird

You're spot-on, Anthony.

This was taken around 2-30am.... and by 3 the seeing completely broke down.

I was quite disappointed. I was hoping the seeing would keep improving as we got closer to dawn.

Alas

[iceman (Mike)]

Another good image Matt! Well done in the conditions.

[Ric]

Great image Matt.

Great stuff