Based on a forecast for good seeing, I had hoped to have a two session nights at the telescope starting at with Saturn, a couple hours sleep and then some imaging of Jupiter. However, the seeing was not as good as forecast and deteriorated during the evening.
There was a fantastic alignments of moons close to Saturn at the beginning of the night, but my imaging skills are not yet up to capturing that. I did however manage to capture Titans shadow moving on to the planet's disk just before it disappeared behind some trees. Seeing was already deteriorating so I imaged at two scales. Attached is the smaller of the two images. I will include the second in a separate post.
By the time Jupiter had risen to a worthwhile position the seeing had not improved and I did not get any worthwhile results. It was interesting however to see how the imaging did improve as the planet rose higher into the sky. I had never experienced that before.
There was a fantastic alignments of moons close to Saturn at the beginning of the night, but my imaging skills are not yet up to capturing that. I did however manage to capture Titans shadow moving on to the planet's disk just before it disappeared behind some trees. Seeing was already deteriorating so I imaged at two scales. Attached is the smaller of the two images. I will include the second in a separate post.
By the time Jupiter had risen to a worthwhile position the seeing had not improved and I did not get any worthwhile results. It was interesting however to see how the imaging did improve as the planet rose higher into the sky. I had never experienced that before.
Attached Image:
Paul Adams
Floating around at 20 miles an hour.
