Afocal Adventure - Saturn

[Deeno]

Same as the Mars effort except at 1/30sec.

Oh well No mistake. Definately Saturn.

If I could get the Dob tracking.......................!!!!

Cheers
Deeno

[dannat (Daniel)]

I think the second ones quite good, you should be pleased with it - I would

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Well done!
I'm an Afocaler myself, it's not the easiest method but you can get some surprisingly good results.

[callingrohit (Vivek)]

great captures deeno.

I too have a dob and man it tests my patience when I'm trying to capture saturn afocally. I'm amazed how people handguide and take beautiful DSO shots. I can't handguide for even a minute....let alone 1 frame of 5mins. can't wait for the weekend...hopefully the sky will be clear and I plan to capture about 100-200 shots of saturn so that I can stack them....I stacked 4 images only and got good results so this weekend saturn will be the only aim..... thanks for sharing....

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent afocal work Deeno, great start.

Vivek - when you read "hand guiding", they're still using an equatorial mount and a hand controller. They're using the hand controller to keep the star centered in a reticle.

It's not hand-guiding a dob base.

[callingrohit (Vivek)]

just when i thought i was getting a hang of astronomy ....geez ...

thanks mike....