Saturn last night, March 6

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 07-03-2009, 02:32 PM

Some good seeing again for a while last night, just after 1am. This is an animation of two red channel images taken a few minutes apart. A lot of cloud detail is visible, as well as two moons.

cheers, Bird

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #2 07-03-2009, 03:19 PM

Here's a colour image as well.

cheers, Bird

Starkler (Geoff) · #3 07-03-2009, 03:23 PM

A question if I may..

I have noticed that just about all Saturn images I have seen this year show the planets globe with a lot of greenish hues, where formerly it was all browns and beiges. Why is that?

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #4 07-03-2009, 03:33 PM

Not sure, maybe colour balance and response of these cams is a bit off with something as dim as saturn?

The image is almost certainly over-saturated in colours as well.

cheers, Bird

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #5 07-03-2009, 03:35 PM

This may be closer to the correct colours...

cheers, Bird

Dennis · #6 07-03-2009, 04:10 PM

Hi Anthony

Another top notch set of images – well done. The image scale is quite remarkable as is your imaging system’s capability to resolve the moons and storms. Not forgetting the obvious talent and dedication of the operator too!

Cheers

Dennis

Kevnool (Kev) · #7 07-03-2009, 04:11 PM

The images are all elegant Bird its a credit to you....cheers Kev.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 07-03-2009, 06:08 PM

Another mono image from about 15 minute earlier, this shows a good look at the prominent storm near the CM. From this perspective it looks like two separate but very close storms.

cheers, Bird

astroron (Ron) · #9 07-03-2009, 07:07 PM

Excellent images Anthony

Well done as usual

Quark (Trevor) · #10 07-03-2009, 07:33 PM

Hi Bird,
Stunning work again, so much detail and cloud structure in your animation that is also, extremely well resolved in the RGB.

Top Stuff
Regards
Trevor

iceman (Mike) · #11 07-03-2009, 07:33 PM

Beautiful images, Anthony. Lots of detail.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #12 07-03-2009, 07:50 PM

Last one... This is the colour image to go with the R channel image above. The storm still looks like it's in two pieces to me.

cheers, Bird

Quark (Trevor) · #13 07-03-2009, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bird

Last one... This is the colour image to go with the R channel image above. The storm still looks like it's in two pieces to me.

cheers, Bird

Another great image Bird,

Your R channel image definitely looks like this feature is two distinct storms.

The fact that even in the RGB, the two features have not smeared into one, to me is clear evidence of two separate structures.

Regards
Trevor

Lester · #14 08-03-2009, 09:00 AM

Hey, you lucky duck, that last colour image is exceptional showing storms, colour, just so much detail.

Good on ya Anthony.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #15 08-03-2009, 11:49 PM

Beautiful work as usual.

Jen · #16 09-03-2009, 12:28 AM

amazing pictures Bird nice work keep em coming

Paul Haese · #17 09-03-2009, 05:35 PM

Great work again Anthony. Excellent detail visible. Congrats.

Cougs (Chris) · #18 11-03-2009, 09:06 AM

Excellent!

May I ask what equipment combination you used to get such great shots?

Cheers,
Chris

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #19 11-03-2009, 09:41 AM

Hi Chris, the scope is LEXX, a homebrew newtonian described here:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

cheers, Bird