The most beautiful object in the Solar system! The rings can be easily seen with a 3” telescope and a 4” or bigger telescope will allow you to tease out more detail. Look out for the Cassini division in Saturn’s ring and Saturn’s largets Moon Titan.
Filters
Orange (Wratten #21) Improves contrast on the equitorial belts
Green (Wratten #58) Improves polar regions
Imaging
Try using an IR pass filter to reduce the impact of the Earths atmosphere – requires a larger telescope.
Leigh Slomer’s Saturn Images
Images of Saturn are from the same 2 minute long raw format video, but stacked and processed differently. The last version had a 1.5x drizzle applied to enlarge the size.
Equipment used:
•Skywatcher heq5 pro mount
•Skywatcher skymax 150 pro maksutov cassegrain telescope
•celestron 2× Barlow
•Zwo asi290mc one shot colour uncooled CMOS camera
•Captured with ASICAP for android
•First and second version stacked in registax, the last version in autostakkert with wavelets in registax
•Final processing in GIMP
Camera settings:
•Raw16 colour space
•Gain 300
•Exposure time 82000ųs
Other Images
Sun | Comets | Mercury | Venus | Atmospheric Optics | Meteors | Auroa and NLC | Moon | Minor Planets | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Messier | Caldwell | All Deep Sky | Conjunctions | Transits | Solar Eclipse | Lunar Eclipse | Wide Field |ISS & Space Junk | Exo-Planets
All images are copyright. Permission must be sought to from the image owner to the use of any of these images.