Saturn with Titan Shadow transit, March 28

Kal (Andrew) · #1 28-03-2009, 11:37 PM

I was out with my refractor on the mount tonight (taking images to produce a Periodic Error graph of my mount of all things) when I decided to take a peek at Saturn. With my powermate and 9mm nagler in place, I would see a tiny shadow on the planets surface. I should have checked to see what was happening withg Saturn tonight, if I'd known there was going to be a titan shadow transit I would have taken my C11 out to cool down. Anyway, pulled out my Toucam, and grabbed a couple of clips.

At F/15 in the 5 inch refractor (with my 2.5x powermate), the image scale was still quite small, so I have resampled the image 150%

Lester · #2 29-03-2009, 12:00 AM

Good one Andrew, nice banding plus the shadow of Titan.

mental4astro (Alexander) · #3 29-03-2009, 12:19 AM

Hi Kal,

Isn't the way it happens, busy doing other things but still sneak in a squizz at an old favourite and 'POW! Cop this one!'

Nice shot at short notice, mate

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Mental

cookie8 (Vincent) · #4 29-03-2009, 03:57 AM

Nice capture Kal of such a rare event.

Kal (Andrew) · #5 29-03-2009, 07:55 PM

Thanks Lester, Alexander and Vincent.

Quote:

Isn't the way it happens, busy doing other things but still sneak in a squizz at an old favourite and 'POW! Cop this one!'

And a most satisfying POW as well!!

Quark (Trevor) · #6 29-03-2009, 10:43 PM

Well done Andrew,

Nice capture, shame you didn't have your C11 ready.
Still, a very nicely resolved image of the transit.

Cheers
Trevor