Just had to post this

Hi all,

You know how when you are almost finished imaging and you feel like trying something outragous? Well, that happened last night...I had finished obtaining the images of Saturn I wanted and decided to try something totally off the wall....I stuck my 5x powermate into the C925 with the Atik camera and took a 200 second avi. The efl is about F/48. Anyway, here is the final image. It is not enlarged or reduced...just as it came from the raws. Seeing was only 5-6/10 but considering what I was doing, it is shockingly good!! I may have to try this again under better conditions.

Paul Maxson

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Hi Paulo,

wow, a really good result, amazing for f/48 and mediocre seeing conditions Did you use any filter for the capture ?
Good to see that your C9 performs as it should now ! I should try my birthday present (C9.25) with my 5x Powermate next time skies are clear, your result is very encouraging.

Best regards & Clear skies,
Oliver

Paul -

Excellent! I think this may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship - between your 9.25 and 5x barlow.

Alan

Thats excellent. I knew that 5x powermate was a great piece. I have to get one! Not that i dont enjoy the challenge of imaging planets with a 4" apo, but i sure do miss my old C9.25.

Hi Paul,

I tried imaging Saturn at f/46 a month ago with my 3x barlow and Orion extension tube and didn't get anywhere near as good an image as yours. Did you have a lot of trouble keeping the image on the CCD chip?

Ed Roach

Excellent Paul! That's exactly what happened to me! Last year I used a 3X Barlow with my 8" F/9 TMB. This year I tried a 4X and one night I put a 2.5X powermate into a 2x Big barlow (appaerently about 4.7X) and... not too bad.
Great results Paul and on a night of really good seeing, oooh, watch out!! Congratulations!

Jim Phillips

Hi Paul,

A great Saturn image , wow! F/48

Thanks,

Wes Higgins