First attempts at Saturn

I'd earmarked last night for about a week as my best attempts to (a) stay up late and (b) get decent imagery of Saturn. Well, the skies didn't cooperate as well as I liked. After setting everything up, the clouds rolled in on cue. While they did evacuate just in time for Saturn to make an appearance, they left a wake of turbulent air for me to try and see through.

This was probably the worst seeing I've had for the 925 CGEM and the ASI 224 camera. Regardless, I took some images. Because, you never know - you might get lucky!

I didn't though. I've only gone through about a third of the stacks I put up, but the results are pretty consistent. No matter how much post-processing I do, there's just not enough data in the noise to get really robust imagery. Oh well.

Here's a couple of images of my endeavours. Keep in mind Saturn was no more than 20 degrees above the horizon and directly over the treeline and my neighbor's home.