7 February 04

Everybody’s Favorite Planet

saturn3v.jpgAt least to look at in the telescope. Wednesday evening we had clear skies and I did some imaging with our digicam through my 7” reflector, looking at the Orion Nebula and Saturn. The 7” Dob has no tracking so I’m limited to very short exposures, a maximum of 1” second before star trails are evident. With those exposure times, the Orion images were too noisy to be usable for anything, but my imaging of Saturn was more successful. Here is a composite image of Saturn made from 13 stacked exposures (1/60th and 1/125th second), at the original resolution. I’m looking forward to trying my hand at Jupiter as it nears opposition early in March.

Posted by at 09:14 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. Nice shot of Saturn. I looked the other night but it was so high over head, I couldnt get a scope on it. On the otherhand, nice look at Jupiter, though only 3 moons were obvious.
    Were you using the Coolpix 995? Four plants visible the other night though it was too cold to look at all of them.
    ciao

    — tattler    12. February 2004, 16:41    Link

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