Here's an image from early in the session of last night in very good seeing. The SED storm is not yet visible at this time, but you can see Tethys on the right hand side above the rings and Enceladus below the rings and just to the left of the planet (that's a bit of a challenge to see).
I'm using a Point Grey Research camera called Dragonfly2, a TV 5x powermate to increase the image scale, and astrodon RGB filters.
The camera runs at about 25fps for Saturn, and I capture 90 seconds in each filter, so there's about 2500 raw frames available and I normally stack about 1400 of the best frames.
Thanks Anthony,
that's an impressive scope project!
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I'm using a Point Grey Research camera called Dragonfly2, a TV 5x powermate to increase the image scale, and astrodon RGB filters.
Does this camera have its own lens, or do you use a projection eyepiece, or how does it work?
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The camera runs at about 25fps for Saturn, and I capture 90 seconds in each filter, so there's about 2500 raw frames available and I normally stack about 1400 of the best frames.
Interesting, I'm about to try something similar, only with an iSight camera (external firewire type). I have to fashion some kind of adapter to do this, but have no idea what sort of images to expect…
... and another image from a little later. Tethys (above the ring) and Rhea (below the ring) are easily visible, and Dione is faintly seen at the extreme right hand edge.
The saturn SED storm can be seen as a white patch at the upper right in the southern hemisphere.
Hey Bird, just checked out your images again and now that you have pointed it out to me, the shadow of the G ring is very well defined in your first image and while not as well defined, still visible in your second.
That is such a cool thing, to be able to image it with an amateur scope is a real buzz.
