Saturn moon approach in cloudy Canberra 17 Sept

[foc (Ross)]

Thin cloud covered the whole of this event in Canberra which meant the closest captures of the event were the most cloud/moonlight affected. So this later capture had the targets a bit more separated. I used a C6 with reducer and the apc sized 2600mc camera and in processing used curves in GIMP to brighten Saturn a bit on this stack of 22 frames.


I think the relative sizes and brightness in this image illustrates how hard our Saturn imagers have to work to get a nice Saturn image!

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

Cleverly done Ross - well done!

[Dave882 (David)]

Very cool Ross!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Great Shoot'n and shows a great perspective of Saturn in the scheme of things..
Good job

[foc (Ross)]

Thanks once again to you Bob, and also to Anthony and David for your kind comments.

As you say it is a nice perspective planetary opposition image. I remember even our local high school putting out a newsletter echoing the hype in 2018 that Mars at opposition was going to look the size of a full moon! That outcome would certainly make planetary imaging much easier But our tides would be pretty weird.

It is certainly good to grab a win in this year's tough local conditions for anyimaging at 1000mm focal length and over.