From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: April 10, 2008 7:41:12 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Our first Saturn shots

Hi Dave -

Very nice work on Saturn! Sounds like you have all the right ingredients for successful planetary imaging from your back porch in Miami Beach. A dark site won't improve the signal, though a transparent sky will provide more light which will help. Unfortunately, atmospheric transparency and steadiness rarely walk hand in hand - at least that is my experience. 

Your color balance is very good in the recent images. I believe the moon in your 3-29 image is Rhea. Enceladus transits the northern latitudes of saturn at the current apparent tilt angle.

clear skies,

Alan

On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:43 AM, doodlebun wrote:

My wife Gail and I are proud to announce we have managed to get some halfway decent
photos of Saturn with our new DMK 21AF04, MacBook running Leopard and our new Astro
IIDC software. The photos on the bottom of my gallery were taken with a CF wheel using
LRGB synthesis, all taken through a CGE 1100 with 2.5 x Powermate. Location was North
Miami Beach from my back porch. Seeing was above average. I am wondering if I will get
better S/N in a dark site shooting Saturn?

http://gallery.mac.com/davidbleser#100065&view=grid&bgcolor=black&sel=7

the earlier photos were using the typical SPC 900 and Equinox

Dave Bleser