G'day all,
Well, it is so rare that I photograph a planet I just had to post this! That is besides the fact it's only 30 frames!
I was slewing around tonight looking at some NGC objects for suitable guidestars and needing to go past Satun I decided to try snapping it with the SBIG. To my surprise it wasn't burnt out! Last time I tried I'm sure it was (some years ago), I know Jupiter certinly is unable to be imaged with the ST7 because it just over exposes.
Anyway, minimum exposure resulted in 30% saturation tonight, so I went for 60% at 0.2 second exposure.
Cloud was passing through so out of 150 frames I only kept 30.
One thing with the ST7 setup is focus is a sinch. 62 seconds to autofocus tonight, and Saturn was spot on sharp.
At 2190mm focal length it was very small on the chip. I have resized the original up about 225% to get it to the current size. It loses that sharp look of course, but I found it was just too small at original size.
Anyway, here's my first and probably last image of Saturn in quite some time, better enjoy it while it lasts!
Roger.
Tick it off 
