Saturn and Jupiter from this morning 5 August 2022
Before turning in last night we imaged both Saturn and Jupiter. The seeing on Meteoblue's indexes were 1 and 1 and the jet stream was 49m/s, so not great. We have been experimenting with shortening the back focus to the sensor on our camera with a ZWO ADC. As supplied it increases the magnification of a barlow to too high a magnification for our equipment. With our shortened arrangement we have now got approx 1.8x magnification.
Jupiter was way low in the sky at only 27 degrees but we didn't feel like waiting up any more. The GRS was just coming into view. It is presented as would be viewed on date and time.
Saturn was much higher in the sky at 60 degrees. Both were enjoyable to view.
Nice images in the circumstances, Clare and Peter.
What scope and focal length were you using?
Thanks Steve. The scope is a 6" SCT at F10 so its focal length is 1500. With the 1.8x barlow it gives a total focal length of 2700. The 1.8 is only calculated at this time, we haven't had a chance to measure it yet, but it will be around that sort of figure.
Thank you Russell, Trevor, David and John.
Appreciate your comments.
We guess that we are all waiting for some hopefully better conditions in the next few weeks with Saturn and Jupiter reaching opposition. Here's hoping
