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| Saturn two months from 2008 opposition |
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| Saturn on 4-22-2008, notice the rings are more open |
| RGB Taken on 5/3/08, ring color best |
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| I tried to imitate the color on the Cassini Saturn pics, this is similar to ring color |
| RGB Taken on 5/3/08, planet color is best |
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| Not sure why the rings appear yellower but in some NASA pics they do too. |
| (RG)RGB taken on 4/22/08, more blue |
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| Still trying to get the pastel color with the white rings |
| (RG)RGB taken on 4/22/08 |
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| The seeing was pretty good. Notice the storm in upper right. |
| (RG)RGB taken on 2/17/08 |
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| Not great seeing but came out pretty well, near opposition |
| LRGB of Saturn near opposition |
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| Rings are fairly closed right now but no shadow from the planet on the rings |
These photos were taken on 1-27-08 (my dad's 75th birthday). The seeing was pretty good but I had some transparency
issues.
| LRGB of Saturn |
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| Picture was enlarged from original. Taken at f/10. |
First good shot of 2008. I might have some others but this one is first out of the chute.
| For the moon lovers |
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| The Enceladus and Tethys moons were copied from Dione and placed according to lum only shot |
| RGB Picture |
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| Taken 2-13. Comparable to LRGB pics. Seeing and transparency were pretty good. |
I worked on my technique for RGB images and, as opposed to what I was able to do with Mars, Saturn shows about the same
in RGB as LRGB. Hmmmm...
| LRGB of Saturn |
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| Less gain on this image. Colors a bit different. |
| Saturn on 2-13 using Powermate 2.5x |
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| Saturn is near opposition in this shot. |
The picture below was taken without using the Powermate. The Powermate magnifies the image 2.5 times but, consequently,
it's a lot dimmer. If the atmosphere is still though, you always get better results using the Powermate even though
your picture acquisition times are longer.
This is an LRGB full color shot taken on 2-10-2008 using no filter, red, green, and blue filters. It is still odd
to me how pictures taken on different nights can look so different. Some of it is probably humidity in the atmosphere,
elevation, pollution, seeing, transparency etc. but some of it is probably the way I do things.
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RGB taken on 2/17/08)
