Saturn in good seeing 3/3UT - spot animation now added

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Quark

Literally just stepped off of the plane Ray, flew down to Adelaide this morning, had an x-ray to check that the wires in my wrist supporting the graft are still in place and am now in a full plaster cast for the next 6 weeks. Made sure that when they fitted the cast enough of my fingers are exposed to let me have a crack at rotating my filter wheel. Reckon it will still be interesting but if this cloud buggars off I intend getting right back into it, well as best as I can.

good to hear - doesn't sound like much fun though.
Just added an animation to the original post. No sign of anything structural moving in the rings, but there is a lot of other stuff, including brighter regions moving under the crepe ring.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Awe Ray why did you do that? Now I am gonna have to get my butt into gear and do some planetary work. Superb image mate with great detail. I thought there was good seeing down the south east over the weekend. Now I know for sure.

Thanks Paul, it was pretty exciting stuff. Finally ran into the limit of my 12 inch aperture I think. Looking forward to your posts.

regards Ray

[Octane (Humayun)]

That is so damn nice! Well done, Ray.

(coming from a non-planetary imager!)

H

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by U.K.Cowboy

Fantastic images! My goodness they are the best Saturn shots I've seen this year!

Hi Stuart, great to have you over here on IIS, reckon this image of Ray's scores yet another goal for the DMK.

Cheers
Trevor

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Originally Posted by Quark

Hi Stuart, great to have you over here on IIS, reckon this image of Ray's scores yet another goal for the DMK.

Cheers
Trevor

Its good to be here Trevor some very fine images I've seen and none better than these. Yep the 618 chip takes some beating for sure!

[John Hothersall]

A fine image setting the bar high, can only dream of this with Brisbane monsoon in progress.

John.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Octane

That is so damn nice! Well done, Ray.

(coming from a non-planetary imager!)

H

thanks Humayun - yes, you have to be a slight bit nuts to do planetary (being awake at this hour for example), but when seeing is OK, its fun

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

A fine image setting the bar high, can only dream of this with Brisbane monsoon in progress.

John.

Thanks John. we have had some clear sky between the the clouds, but its been hot - the sky is in constant thermal turmoil unless the wind is blowing calmer air in off the sea.

regards Ray

[Logieberra (Logan)]

Crisp as! A real jewel against that blackness of space. This shot makes me miss planetary with a newt!

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Ray - I reakon you can make out cloud action in the lighter white band in the animation - if not you can easily see the uneven disturbance between the two bands - Super!

[naskies (Dave)]

Wow, that's a stunner!

[Suzy]

WOW what a gorgeous image! I loved the animation too!

Ray, I've just popped them both on the IceInSpace facebook page and it's getting a lot of attention in there very fast. I can't resist quoting here one of the comments just said in there: "I seriously thought that was an image by the Cassini Satellite! Brilliant!!!"
There's a lot of "wow" comments in there.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater


Ray, what equipment were you using? Would you mind providing the details please so I can pop into the fb post, thanks.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Logieberra

Crisp as! A real jewel against that blackness of space. This shot makes me miss planetary with a newt!

thanks very much Logan. would your SCT be OK for planetary?

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Hi Ray - I reakon you can make out cloud action in the lighter white band in the animation - if not you can easily see the uneven disturbance between the two bands - Super!

g'day Matt. I was surprised by just how much detail stood out in the animation, especially the clouds on the band edge - worth doing.

Originally Posted by naskies

Wow, that's a stunner!

thanks Dave

Originally Posted by Suzy

WOW what a gorgeous image! I loved the animation too!

Ray, I've just popped them both on the IceInSpace facebook page and it's getting a lot of attention in there very fast. I can't resist quoting here one of the comments just said in there: "I seriously thought that was an image by the Cassini Satellite! Brilliant!!!"
There's a lot of "wow" comments in there.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater


Ray, what equipment were you using? Would you mind providing the details please so I can pop into the fb post, thanks.

Hi Suzy. thanks for doing that.

The equipment was a 300mm f5 GSO Newtonian with a 5x Powermate (effective focal length of ~8m) on an EQ6 mount. Exposed through RGB filters using a TIS618 mono camera. Processed with AS!2 software which combined about 3000 frames from about 8000 taken over 6 minutes.

regards ray

[stardust steve (Steve)]

superb Ray, looks great!

[asimov (John)]

And I in turn, pinched the image from Suzy/IIS Facebook & plonked it in Freddie's imaging page

[rogerg (Roger)]

absolutely amazing image quality

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by stardust steve

superb Ray, looks great!

thanks Steve

Originally Posted by asimov

And I in turn, pinched the image from Suzy/IIS Facebook & plonked it in Freddie's imaging page

thanks John

Originally Posted by rogerg

absolutely amazing image quality

thank you Roger

regards ray