Saturn from Melbourne last night

[John K]

Melbourne had some good seeing last night - especially around midnight for Saturn.

At over 60 degrees altitude and at opposition, it was a great sight and was able to snap my best image so far of the planet - always a good sign when Encke's division shos up.

Only processed mildly for these two images showing one in RGB and another in IRGB which is why there is a red tinge but more contrast.

Still have to process my Mars shots and also took some Moon shots as well. Will keep processing away these images over the coming days and post them too.

It's also could be good tonight here as well if the high cloud stays away.

Hope others are getting out there.

John K.

[pw (Peter)]

Very nice John, quite crisp looking.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, excellent, that Encke looks really crisp and real, rather than a processing artifact that it can look like in some images

Mike

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Looks lovely John! Please send some of the seeing this way

[John Hothersall]

I got similar results with seeing improving near the meridian. Good banding showing on the disc.

John.

[leon]

Excellent work John, gee I wish I could do that, well done.

Leon

[Dennis]

Lovely images John, nicely processed too. Love the Encke!

Cheers

Dennis

[Rod771 (Rod)]

That's very nice John. One of the best I've seen.

Well done

[John K]

Thanks for all the comments guys - appreciate it.

Hope everyone is getting out there tonight for the Saturn occultation - unfortunately I am not at home but look forward to seeing everyone's images.

John K.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Just noticed this on the APOTY flickr group...this really is an excellent image of Saturn John, I've seen very few any better that weren't from Hubble or Cassini

Mike

[Paul Haese]

Nice image John, it has good colour and processing in my opinion. Well done.

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Superb shots.