Saturn 12th good seeing

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F32 11,200mm, PGRFlea3, Astrodon filters, IR742nm filter.

Had problems with laptop not starting twice then could not find a bright star to collimate with on the screen so wasted an hour. Saturn looked good and remained still for 3-4 secs with 10/10 seeing before it degraded to 8/10 seeing. Finally secondary mirror misted over so will use dew shield next time.

Some ring dust on left side again and a hint of Encke perhaps but not obvious.

I tried IR742nm with gamma at 1300 to show crepe ring and any dust in ring B, In processing it showed better banding. At F32 I think this is the longest FL I can go to with 23fps in Red and 10fps in Blue.

Had some mist during RGB and processed very quickly, storm was not there.

R RGB.
2 GIF animations first red channel second IR channel - 4 frames every 20mins between 2-3am EST.

Thanks, John.

[Dennis]

Wow John – these are excellent photos and superb animations; real space mission fly by experiences! Top stuff!

Cheers

Dennis

[Clayton]

Superb work John! (as usual )

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Excellent detail

[iceman (Mike)]

Awesome as usual, love the crepe ring!

[Frewi808 (Freddy)]

Magnificant Images again John and YES I can see Encke !!!
Freddy

[Quark (Trevor)]

Most excellent result there John.

Love your RGB, super detail and you have the tail of the storm extending from the Western limb at least 2/3 of the way across the planet. A super all round effort.

Regards
Trevor

[icytailmark (Mark)]

love your work john ur images are getting better all the time. What mount do you use with your newt?

[Lester]

Outstanding images John, thanks for the views.

[John Hothersall]

Thanks for comments, seeing has been variable but not too bad starting off good and deteriorating to avg.

Originally Posted by icytailmark

love your work john ur images are getting better all the time. What mount do you use with your newt?

Thanks Mark, I use the humble EQ6 to mount my 20kg 14" Newt with EQmod which gives excellent control, I just have to recentre Saturn every now and again with nice smooth controls Eqmod gives.

Appreciate kind comments, thanks - John.

[Frewi808 (Freddy)]

Amazing to see Encke !
Freddy

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Aah that's very nice, you've got the spokes visible again on the left. And there is definitely a glimpse of the Encke division, impressive!

[Troy]

Great detail and very nice shots

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Agree with other posts - excellent.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeh top result there John, some amazing fine details visible for sure.

Those spokes seem to be a common feature these days..?

Mike