A September Saturn - Explored
The planet Saturn imaged during the Sunday evening (19th September). The planet was only at 15° altitude and approaching the roofline so seeing conditions were predictably poor.
The planet's image was very unsteady - squirming all over the place making manual focusing difficult but I decided to persevere!
This image is the result of a total of 12x1min RGB runs stacked using Autostakkert3, processed using Registax 6 and derotated using Winjupos.
Given the poor altitude and difficult atmospheric conditions I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
The shadow of Saturn's globe on the ring system is very pronounced given that the planet is now well passed opposition.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT, ZWO 224MC camera with ADC and an Explore Scientific focal extender.
As always many thanks for looking!
A September Saturn - Explored
The planet Saturn imaged during the Sunday evening (19th September). The planet was only at 15° altitude and approaching the roofline so seeing conditions were predictably poor.
The planet's image was very unsteady - squirming all over the place making manual focusing difficult but I decided to persevere!
This image is the result of a total of 12x1min RGB runs stacked using Autostakkert3, processed using Registax 6 and derotated using Winjupos.
Given the poor altitude and difficult atmospheric conditions I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
The shadow of Saturn's globe on the ring system is very pronounced given that the planet is now well passed opposition.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT, ZWO 224MC camera with ADC and an Explore Scientific focal extender.
As always many thanks for looking!