Saturn, Imaged with an
AP 10" f/14.6 Maksutov-Cassegrain


We finally got a break in the weather and there was a period of about 1 hour
last night where the seeing was pretty good to great. I was lucky to have the
10" fired up with the ST10E in planet mode, and 2X Barcon and took some 150
RGB images of Saturn and its Moons. Equivalent focal length is 7400mm (~F30).
The first image is at 100% image size and shows the 4 Moons.


For the second image I doubled the size of each RGB set before combining them
to show the ring divisions better. I probably should have used the FFC for
more power up front.


Image by Roland Christen of Astro-Physics.


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