Saturn

[Troy]

Hi,
this is my tiny Saturn from last Saturday night. The time was 14:35 UT, object size was 19.2 arcseconds and altitude was 55 degrees. I'm not really happy with the colour yet but this is something I will have to work on.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi Troy,

Thats a very good job, nice and crisp and you have some nice banding in the atmosphere. I like the colour as well. With Saturn the colour is very subtle, unlike Jupiter for instance.

Well done
Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Thanks Trevor,
My C9.25 struggled to gather enough light. I guess on Saturn the larger scopes really show better capabilities.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Nice work Troy, and Saturn is very difficult for scopes < 10", I had lots of trouble esp. with the blue channel when I was using a 10" scope a few years ago. All you can do is keep the image scale down to where you can get enough brightness.

cheers, Bird

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Good one Troy - the colour looks pretty natural - great job!

[Clayton]

I'd be very happy with that Troy
You have some good detail. And it's early days for Saturn just now

[Remus (Tom)]

Very nice... I would be happy with that too.

[Troy]

Thanks Bird, Matt, Clayton and Tom for your experiences and comments. I'm hoping for some more good weather this weekend so I can get out amongst it.

[iceman (Mike)]

Looks nice to me Troy, very sharp and good colour.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

I think this is a really nice and natural Saturn.

Frank

[Troy]

Thanks Mike and telecasterguru.
It's the blue look about it I don't like. Most of the Hubble's pictures have a more brown or yellow look to it.