Saturn - Brisbane - 1505UT

[matt]

My first Saturn of the season

Pleased with the detail the DMK managed to capture. Some nice banding on the planet's surface and Cassini Division recognisable.

As others have pointed out, it's a fairly dim object at the moment and I really had to work the camera settings to get the histogram a shade past halfway using an Astronomik red filter.

Will be fun when the filter wheel finally arrives.

BTW...north is up in this image.

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice red channel, Matt. Looks good for an RGB!

[CoombellKid]

Awesome Matt,

Look forward to seeing more, Well done

regards,CS

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

Spectacular Matt

You've captured far more banding on the planet than I have been able to see visually lately.

[davidpretorius]

yes, this good.

what frame rate for the c9.25?

[matt]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Dave - I was shooting at 15fps and 1/15th of a second with the gain fully cranked.

I took a few at 7.5fps which I haven't processed yet.

Althought the 7.5fps enabled me to fill the histogram more, somehow it didn't look as good on the laptop screen.

Obviously, the higher frame rate and exposure gave me just that little bit more in being able to 'freeze' the seeing.

Cheers.

[rumples riot]

Nice image there Matt. It is indeed a very dim target, and will be more so next year when the rings close up altogether.

[matt]

Cheers, Paul. Much appreciated.

Yeah...we're gonna have our work cut out for us in '09.

[Alchemy (Clive)]

youve put out some good shots, just had a peek at your mars shot its good too. thee seems to be a few more taking up the planets, it could go crazy when jupiter arrives.