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Originally Posted by Rez
I am yet to see Saturn with my newly acquired 8" dobsonian.
Is this picture indicative of how I should expect to see it through my scope ?
Rez
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Not quite
You'll see it, depending on the EP you've chosen, in varying sizes from a pinpoint with blobs out the side to something you'd instantly recognise as Saturn. The largest I got to see it the other night, without the seeing destroying my view through too much magnification, was though a 7mm EP on my 8" Newt. That's at 142 mag. With that EP fitted, I saw Saturn as an elongated disk although I could make out the rings, and a gap between the rings and the planetary sphere. I'd say it would have fit across my FOV several dozen times end to end. You will not see it like you look at the photos in this thread. It'd be nice - but that's pie in the sky stuff unfortunately. You only get images like that with reasonably good exposure to either film or CCD, a lot of corrective work and then cropping the 98% of the empty black away from the bit you want. You'll also see it through your eyepiece in near-monochrome - not nice and bright colour.
Certainly makes me want to finally use my ToUcam.......
