Classical Gas

Started by gjcarter, 10/16/2003 06:19AM
Posted 10/16/2003 06:19AM Opening Post
The beautiful thing about Saturn, is Saturn's a beautiful thing!
His globe is engulfed in the gases, and embraced by the wonderous rings!
He's legend-ary, planet-ary fun, fun-fun, fun-fun!
And the most beautiful thing about Saturn is...He's the only one! Heeee's the only one!!!

October 15, 2003 6:19 a.m. Central
Celestron Ultima 11, Televue 4X Powermate (F40), ToUcam Pro, Baader UV-IR Cut Filter
K3CCD Tools to Capture avi data @10fps, 1/33sec shutter speed. Registax to process images.
Cool, clear, calm morning.
Saturn was almost overhead. I managed to capture a very calm 90 second period. Best 350 or so frames of 450.

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-Gary
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Posted 10/16/2003 06:26AM #1
Gary,

Thank you for sharing this beautiful image of Saturn with us all. You have captured much detail across the globe and rings. I look forward to your future images. Please also post in the Solar System Observing forum.

Carlos E. Hernandez

P.S. Please tell Tigger to control homself while imaging Saturn!
Posted 10/16/2003 03:09PM #2
Gary,

Beautiful Saturn alright , have you tried Saturn
with out the IR Cut Filter , I know it helps on
Mars , maybe I should try it on Saturn too .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins
Posted 10/16/2003 04:03PM #3
Beautiful image, Gary.

That looks like the Encke division peeking through on the outermost right side. On the left it looks a little too prominent. It's about 1/20th arc second at the widest!

I also wondered about the IRB filter for Saturn. I removed mine to gain a little more light.

Thanks for sharing,
Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman

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