1st Saturn this season

[laika (Brenton)]

Hi all,
I have not posted for awhile, clouds, work, inlaws,but finally on Saturday night the skys stayed clear.
I deceided to first polar align using the polar scope since I recently discoverded where Sigma Octans resides after a trip to some nice dark skys but only armed with a pair of binoculars.
It worked well but after a frustrating time with RA drift while trying to image the Keyhole Nebula I turned my attention to Saturn,must get a guide scope.
Anyway Saturn was jumping all over the screen with the 5x power mate but I still went ahead and I am glad that I did.
By around 2a.m. the seeing improved to around 5 and on the computer screen I could just make out the division in the rings.
Details.
10" newt on EQ6
Modded philips SPC900NC
Badeer IR filter
taken at 10fps
best 160 frames stacked
processed in photoshop.

Regards.
Brenton.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Great image Brenton, Saturn is a very tough object. The Cassini division and banding on the planet are clearly visible.

Well done.

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

Awesome image Brenton. You've captured so much banding on the planet.

It's great that you got some polar alignment happening. Just compensating for drift in RA is not a bad place to be

[davidpretorius]

that is a nice image

well done

dave p