Saturday, 7 February 2009

Pushing the magnification

I recently tried to image Saturn, which is not currently visible from my garden until about 3:00am due to the tree cover. In preparation, I set up the scope during the evening and used the waxing moon as a target to focus the web-cam. As usual, the weather frustrated any hope of imaging Saturn as by 3:00am, the clouds had rolled in.
All I was left with was about 30seconds worth of sub frames of two of the craters on the moons southern hemisphere.
So instead of Saturn, here are a couple of high magnification shots of both Gassendi and Marsenius.


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