Finally got around to image Saturn

[anthony2302749]

Hi All

Been quiet busy lately with work and family but made sometime to get out to the telescope and capture my first image of Saturn for this year. Equipment that I used was a 10" LX200 plus a 5x Powermate giving an f/ratio of 50. A Lumenera LU075C camera @ 15fps. Total number of frames 5000, processed with Registax, Astra Image. Not a bad effort since I have not been near the scope for a couple of months.

Anthony

[ving (David)]

good one anthony, you have some good detail there and the colours are great

[davidpretorius]

nice work, love the cd.

as this planet rotate similiars to jupiter, have you given thought to less capture time ie 90seconds to try and catch this storm???

[anthony2302749]

Not really, all I wanted to do is get out take and image and be happy with what I got. Next time I will spend a bit more time in teasing out the finer details.

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

nice work, love the cd.

as this planet rotate similiars to jupiter, have you given thought to less capture time ie 90seconds to try and catch this storm???

[Robert_T]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

nice work, love the cd.

as this planet rotate similiars to jupiter, have you given thought to less capture time ie 90seconds to try and catch this storm???

DP saturn's a tad quicker rotation than jupiter, but smaller and much further away so actual movement of detail in relation to camera pixels is smaller and we should be able to image longer without smearing detail than on Joop. I've run nearly 400 seconds and still picked up the storm (though this perhaps is stretching it a bit).

Great images too Anthony

cheers,