Saturn at Opposition
Saturn at Opposition
August 13-14, 2022
After a night of astronomy at the Von Braun Astronomical Society planetarium, I was inspired to drag my Celestron Edge HD8 telescope out for a look at Saturn. I caught it about 12 hours before the time it was nearest Earth for this year. Seeing was decent, so I got my camera set up and this happened. Not a best ever image (I hope!), but still OK for an imager as rusty as me
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8
Mount: Celestron AVX equatorial mount
Camera: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Magnification: Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Other equipment: ZWO UV-IR blocking filter
Best 15% of 7152 video frames, preprocessed with PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert!3, and buffed in Photoshop PSCC2022
Saturn at Opposition
Saturn at Opposition
August 13-14, 2022
After a night of astronomy at the Von Braun Astronomical Society planetarium, I was inspired to drag my Celestron Edge HD8 telescope out for a look at Saturn. I caught it about 12 hours before the time it was nearest Earth for this year. Seeing was decent, so I got my camera set up and this happened. Not a best ever image (I hope!), but still OK for an imager as rusty as me
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8
Mount: Celestron AVX equatorial mount
Camera: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Magnification: Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Other equipment: ZWO UV-IR blocking filter
Best 15% of 7152 video frames, preprocessed with PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert!3, and buffed in Photoshop PSCC2022