Saturn last night

[Bettybooty]

That's quite impressive.....

 

[Fate]

Great photo mate Cosmic some might say.... lol

 

[bonesetter]

nice photo -- i'm just gettin into astronomy, but am a bit disappointed with the image of Saturn i've just seen for the first time. Is this all i can expect??? (similar to the photo at start of thred)?

Also - would like to take some photos through new telescope, but don't have 35mm camera and attachments, but do have 2.2Mp digi - is it possible to take some half decent images with this?

 

[charizzi]

whoa thats so cool... i should look into a telescope one of these days...

 

[zoom4267]

that is a great shot:hail:

 

[PlasticSpanner]

Becky, I have a Celestron C6N 150mm Newtonian reflector which is soon to get a motordrive upgrade!

nice photo -- i'm just gettin into astronomy, but am a bit disappointed with the image of Saturn i've just seen for the first time. Is this all i can expect??? (similar to the photo at start of thred)?

What scope are you using? You'll find that seeing conditions will vary a lot from night to night, hour to hour and it often takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the lower light levels. Persistance pays!

Also - would like to take some photos through new telescope, but don't have 35mm camera and attachments, but do have 2.2Mp digi - is it possible to take some half decent images with this?

There is a camera mount adapter for eyepeice projection photography

http://telescopesandbinoculars.co.uk/acatalog/Ultra_standard_digital_camera_support____.html

A very simple and relatively cheap device! :thumbup: