2003
December 30, 2003, 04:21 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
Seeing conditions fair (5/10).
December 10, 2003, 08:34 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
November 21, 2003, 10:49 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
November 15, 2003, 10:58 UT. Saturn occults 8.4 mag. SAO
78867. Here the star is behind the inner edge of the C ring. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
November 6, 2003, 11:31 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
Satellites of Saturn (November 6, 2003).
October 23, 2003, 10:21 and 10:49 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
September 26, 2003, 11:36 UT. First Saturn image of the
2003-2004 apparition. This image was obtained by combining about 1,200 frames
from five minutes of AVI (10 fps). Note that the brightness of the three
satellites, Tethys, Enceladus, and Dione, have been increased relative to Saturn
in this image. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ about f/35.
January 5, 2003, 5:53 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @
f/32. First Saturn of the New Year captured under good seeing conditions.
2002
December 14, 2002, 05:24 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @
f/30.
November
19, 2002, 07:00 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam @ f/20.
The ToUcam Pro was set on Automatic mode giving it a shutter speed of about 1/5
second allowing my setup to reach at least to magnitude 12.6. I've never been
able to detect Mimas visually with my 8" scope because of its proximity to
Saturn.
November
7, 2002, 10:11 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro Webcam
with Edmunds IR cutoff filter @ f/27. 480 frames (out of about 1200) from 2
minutes of AVI file aligned and stacked with Registax. Processed in Registax and
Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Two satellites are apparent below (Tethys, mag. 9.9) and
below and to the right (Dione, mag. 10.1) of Saturn.
2001
December 4, 2001
. Taken using a PC23C @ f/70 (unfiltered) with eyepiece projection. Result
of 143 frames selected from a 60 second AVI file (video camera was connected to
Intel Webcam to import video into laptop via USB port). Frames stacked and
combined using Astrostack. Image processing with Astrostack and Adobe Photoshop.
This image captures subtle cloud banding in Saturns polar regions.
2000
November
26, 2000. This image was made with my 203 mm f/7 newtonian @ f/73 using
eyepiece projection (a Sirius 7.5 mm Plossl projecting 86 mm) and a PC-23C
B&W CCD video camera (unfiltered). This is the result of 169 stacked frames.
Apparition of 2000-2001. The left image was obtained on October 26 (35 stacked frames). The middle image is from
November 26 (169 stacked frames), and the right image is from December 22 (51 stacked frames).
1999
September, 1999. Panasonic PV-S350
videocamera. These images were taken using
the Afocal Projection method and recorded on VHS tape.
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