Saturn Captured Through 8-inch Telescope
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Saturn is at its brightest this year as it has reached opposition. I captured it from my backyard with one of my oldest telescopes, the Celestron NexStar 8SE. And right before I pack up, I saw Jupiter rising above the trees, so I captured that planet too.
Imaging Telescope: Celestron NexStar 8SE
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI224MC
Mount: Single Fork Arm Alt-Az
Barlow Lens: None
Filter: Astronomik L Type 2c 
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You're definitely right and never gets old looking at the planets it's just amazing how were one little speck and this giant Universe of ours. Amazing videos thank you. 👍👍
Cool, thanks for watching DH!
Awesome Chuck! Just last night around the same time I was imaging Jupiter and Saturn!
Cool, I never get tired of doing the planets.
It's looking great. Love Saturn and it's rings. Just amazing.
Thanks Nick, it's so much fun to capture and see the planets live.
Deep Sky images are nice, but who doesn't love looking at the planets? Thanks Chuck!
It's always a nice switch to do planetary once or twice a year.
I’ll never get bored of looking at Jupiter, Saturn! They are so impressive when you view them with a decent aperture’d telescope with a decent EP! And if the seeing is good, well then it’s a night you’ll never forget! Awesome vid as always Chuck! Thanks my friend! 💯👍Wes, Liverpool UK
Hi Wes, thanks for watching!
Man you bring something much needed to my somewhat of a difficult existence. It's super hard to keep anxiety in check and you can get the same results with just your voice and passionate descriptions about our collective planetary traffic and the other wonders of the whole cosmos. I truly appreciate you Chuck and Please Please stay safe and keep it up and thank you
Thank you, I really appreciate that kind words.
Thanks for sharing Chuck! Those images were really clear! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Trev!
I think you did a really good job ! Thank you- it really is nice that you do this !
Thank you!
Great video Chuck, Looks like you captured some great data, Saturn's rings looked awesome!!
So So Beautiful!! Thank you for capturing It!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Tara!
Planets are a great way to introduce people to the sky, parts of the year its easier to catch than others but you can get good veiws of it through any optics, even binoculars.
Agreed
Always look forward to your videos Chuck! You’re one of the people who got me into astrography!
PS: I’m always in allergy season my dude. Since I was a young kid!
Cool, thanks Chris!
Wow, Chuck- Great seeing! Very cool video.
Yes, seeing was good - but there were many clouds north of me. I was lucky the spot I was capturing in was clear.
Saturn and Jupiter looked really nice, can hardly wait to see the processed images! Sorry to hear about your troubles with the dso rigs, hope you get them sorted out Chuck.
Thanks Joe. On one rig, my guide cam died - I tried everything, but luckily I have lots of other cameras around to use instead.
Amazing video Chuck, Never gets old looking at the planets in our beautiful solar system, have a good one! And also, I'm really looking forward to the incredible captures you'll get in the future.
Thanks for watching, Mr. Hankey!
@@ChucksAstrophotography No problem, be seein ya!
When he says “IM GOING AFTER SATURN TONIGHT” I smashed subscribe… my type guy much love bro
Great capture of both planets Chuck! I am busy with a personal project. Hopefully i will be back in couple of weeks
Thanks Ray! Good luck with the other project.
Great captures Chuck and I love how you have the Telrad taped on to your scope. As long as it works, that is all that matters even if you have to MacGyver it.
Nice Chuck, Saturn and Jupiter are my two favorites to observe thru my scope, here in Georgia it has been cloudy as hell so I haven't got to look in a while. I was really hoping for clear skies with opposition going on with Saturn but it didn't work out that way.
Saturn will still be at its brightest for a couple more days if you can find clear skies.
@@ChucksAstrophotography very true and I think Jupiter's opposition isn't far away either
I live right next door in Aiken, SC, and my husband bought me a new telescope just for this week's opposition. Damn clouds. But I did get some incredible views late Sunday night, early Monday morning. Saturn's golden rings, and Jupiter's incredible color striations!! Praying tonight clears up, but it will take a miracle!
Awesome Capture Chuck! Its Finally Planetary Season!
Thanks for watching, DSH!
Great data you have there Chuck, you must had have very good seeing conditions
Looking forward to the final stacked images
I don't know if I have enough data. I wasn't capturing enough frames per second.
I was using the same telescope on the same day and captured the same thing, Saturn! I love your videos too, and hopefully I'll get a new camera one day
Awesome!
Super cool, thx for sharing this!
Chuck, you and I were on the "same wavelength," or psychically connected that night, because I was capturing Saturn doing the exact same thing about the same time. I have a much smaller scope than you do, so I didn't get as much cool detail; but the settings in SharpCap were almost exactly the same. I also used a 2x Barlow lens to get my best shots ever of that totally awesome planet! Thanks again for sharing your videos. Always a thrill to watch.
Awesome. I think Saturn's opposition brought all of us out wanting to capture Saturn at its closest. Thanks for watching, Paulette!
Great video Chuck
Thanks EddWar
Love these images.
Cool, thanks Ben.
Excellent work.. great video..
Thank you!
Saturn is my favorite planet tysm for making this video❤
Awesome capture of Jupiter bud!!
Thanks Ray!
Pretty clear raw data Chuck. Last year I captured all the outer planets with my 8 EdgeHD with 2x Barlow. With both Jupiter and Saturn near opposition right now, I’m going to try both of these again soon.
Cool, I'd like to do a time-lapse of Jupiter, but it still rises too late.
I would love to own one of those , nothing like being able to see how little we actually know through a lens .
It's so much fun.
My wife and i went out to backyard to peek at Jupiter, Saturn and Andromeda last night, too, with 12 inch dob and 2 inch Explore Scientific 5.5mm. I thought the banding on Jupiter was pretty clear with good seeing and Saturn 🪐 was alright. Probably still a lot of fire smoke up there.
Cool - the smoke is finally starting to clear here.
Yea Saturn was at opposition yesterday! Great images bud!
Yeah, that's why I wanted to capture it. Thanks Ray!
As usually, a great video of quality. Did you use a yellow filter to bring out the planets details more up ?
i went to get some nice captures but nothing except rain for me, glad you did 🔭👍
Dang, I hope the weather clears up. Saturn will still be at its brightest tonight if you are doing planets.
Cools views of Saturn and Jupiter! Bummer about your other rigs, good luck getting them back up and running.
Thanks AstroEd, I hope to fix them soon. On one rig - the Guide Camera no longer works (even when I tried a new USB cable). On the the rig, none of my devices were working - weird.
Always a treat. 👍
Saturn and Jupiter and looking great Chuck! Hope you can fix your two deep sky rigs ok! Isn’t it strange how the equipment gremlins sneak out unnoticed and when you least expect it! My new Eq6r pro seems to have a mind of its own at the moment 😀
Yeah - I haven't even tried to fix them yet, but I better do it today because I think it's going to be clear again and I don't want to miss two nights in a row.
Saturn….always the best thing in the sky.
Agreed
Saturn is a weird world with those rings. It seems like something from a science fiction book. I use the nexstar 6se and it still amazes me to see it.
Right - it does seem like Sci-fi.
Amazing work.. love ur videos… fan from India…
Thanks!
I was doing the exact same thing last night Chuck!! I was testing out my new ASI178MC camera.
Cool, I hope you got some good results.
@@ChucksAstrophotography came out pretty good.... I posted on my IG for now.. Video to come maybe??? :)
Really good 👍🏼; want more😊
Thanks for watching!
I thought it could be more bigger and clearer as you have captured clear images of nebulas and galaxies....
Planets are much bigger challenge than deep space.
@@ChucksAstrophotography why? They are very near to us..
The four horsemen of astrophotography:
1) Chuck's Astrophotography
2) Ray's Astrophotography
3) Astrobackyard
4) Nebula Photos
Thanks C J!
you forgot the little aussie battler dylan o'donnell
Thank you
Glad you got to see Saturn even when the deepsky rigs weren't cooperating. I had a lot of fun going after Saturn with my 8se this opposition as well! Clear skies, Chuck!
Oh cool, glad you got it too, Kyle.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Looking forward to Jupiter throughout the month, too! 😀
Awesome Chuck, hope it’s an easy fix for your rigs. 😀
Thanks Charlie, I hope so too. I don't have the energy to go out and debug right now.
Great captures. The both look clear with lots of colour band detail. Tried imaging them myself last night but rain kept showing up.
Dang, sorry to hear about the rain. We've been lucky to finally get some clear skies and no more smoke.
Don’t get me wrong , great content still.
Now where is Saturn and Jupiter moons ??!!
-Can you capture them, that would be awesome.
It would be harder to capture titan or europa moons.
I love you man ❤️.
Thanks, increasing the exposure would reveal the moons, I could probably see them in post processing too.
Thanks 😊
Nice job. My SE often does that too. It's usually just balance. Sometimes, though, it's Gremlins. :-)
I completely forgot about the balance, thanks.
Once in a while you get a small success that makes it all worth it.
Very true!
Very nice Chuck! A shame about your other two rigs, hope you solve the problem soon.
Yeah, I missed a whole night of clear skies.
Lovely video buddy! I am curious how the stack looks on saturn with the low fps or 7. I captured them also last night, made my first 2 hours proper live stream using the laptop, and the maksutov 127/1500 and zwo 224mc
Cool, I was watching a little bit of your live stream - good job.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Thanks mate. i need to buy a cable to connect my laptop to the mount, i used a wifi adapter the problem was that i was loosing the signal sometimes from my room and i lost a few times the planets and had to go out and re centered when this happen.i did not had polar alignment ( house obstruction) so the tracking was not perfect
I just can't digest the fact that we can see all these planets and stars from so far away and we don't know anything about them, their life, it's just overwhelming
But we are always learning and discovering. Thanks for watching.
wow,, iuncredible to see jupiter just hanging there in the absolute pitch black
what an astonishing mystery,
what the heck is this place
we are living within a mystery that runs like a clock
That is about how I see them with my not expensive telescope live, because I do not have a camera installed on it.
I've seen Jupiter and Saturn through an eyepiece and they look even better than I was see with the camera.
Thanks for making my dream possible, l want to see universe by telescopes 🔭 Thanks 😊
Why does Astrobackyard video shows up each time after I watch a video on your channel...
BTW, I love your videos, a lot to learn, thanks!
g`day chuck have you used fire capture its great for planets with the roi feature (region of interest) for smaller files and other stuff that sharp cap don't have its free.. i think its worth a look hope you get the other 2 rigs sorted out quickly and easily.. great video man i for one would like to see the end result when you find time to stack and process this session if possible
cheers
james D
I had a hard time with FireCapture, but I know a lot of people use it and think it's great.
Hi Chuck. Never gets old seeing these planet's. How has the wedge worked out for you? Heard pros and cons. Considering it or jumping to the avx or 6rpro Thanks.
I used the wedge last year when I was capturing data for Jupiter to create a time-lapse. It worked great and got rid of the field rotation. But I probably would not want to try it for deep sky. Very shaky,
Hard to beat Jupiter and Saturn
Right!
I was surprised to see that you're not using ROI(capture area in sharpcap) for faster FPS Chuck. Also, you can use PIPP in post processing to center the object in the video before going to stacking in autostakkert.
Right, I could have done that also for a faster frame rate. I forgot, I had too many issues I was dealing with on that night.
@@ChucksAstrophotography did you find out what was up with the 2 main rigs?
@@davepastern On one rig, the guide camera appears to have died. On the other rig, I accidentally bumped into my laptop and couldn't get the USB connections to work after that.
@@ChucksAstrophotography ouch and ouch! With the guide cam, I'd try (you probably have already done this) another USB cable, and another USB port. Just to be sure.
It's awesome to see with telescope. I have been using Samsung galexy s21 ultra for a little while to get cool pictures of moon and stars. Light pollution sucks for me though.
Chuck, on your NexStar you have something taped up there… what’s the deal with that? Total noob here. Love the channel, cheers!
lol, that's my sloppy tape job. It's a Telrad Sight Finder. That helps me line up my telescopes with the planets.
Huummmmmph.
I thought i was nutty thinking about using 2 scopes / cameras at the same time.
Its cool i wish i could do what you do
Please consider trying to capture NGC 3314, that it's actually NGC 3314a and NGC 3314b, but they are one over the other!
On the 19 th august is jupiter the nearest to the earth. So please make a video!😀😍
I'll be ready!
Oof I will be in Michigan next week and am not looking forward to the allergies. I am looking forward to the Jupiter opposition on Aug 19th though.
I am really run down because of allergies. Hard to sleep.
@@ChucksAstrophotography oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. It hasn't hit me yet, but I've only been in a couple of hours.
I was hoping to get a picture of Saturn this week but clouds & rain here all week in Ireland. Have you tried doing RGB pictures on planets with the mono camera? if i get a clear night at the weekend i was going to try that.
Cool, I never tried it with a mono camera - seems like a lot of work, but the results will probably be great.
always fun,didnt hear the dog barking,he still there ?
Yeah, he's still there. He was barking before and after I recorded, lol.
Question, does the fork mount find and track objects as they move through the sky or just locate them?
It tracks them across the sky.
How many UFO’s Or whatever term ppl like
To use these days have you captured ?
I know you’ve gotten some good stuff you probably don’t want to show but
Confirmation is still nice 👍
I've never captured a UFO. I can explain everything so far.
Hey Chuck!
Hey Kush!
Great video. I've been trying to do this with the same scope and mount, but with a Sony a5100 streaming to Sharpcap via a frame grabber. Not getting anything like these results. Probably need to go and buy an actual astro camera rather than continuing to fight with this thing....
The ASI224MC is a nice little camera for $199 if you can find one.
@@ChucksAstrophotography - I'm eyeing the ASI462MC. It's on sale for $250 right now....
@@JulieanGalak Good
Question: how close is this to what you would see looking through the telescope directly? I’m looking at a used 11” reflector so I’m wondering what I can expect. Thanks for the great video.
An 11 with a high magnification eyepiece or with a Barlow lens will give good views of it. I can get just as good of views as in the video through my 8 inch reflector with 15mm and 2x Barlow. Jupiter and Saturn are really bright so it doesn't take a lot of resolving power, just lots of focal length.
Through an eyepiece, Saturn will probably look even more sharp - but be prepared that it will also look very small, no matter how big your telescope is.
Will you be able to see Bernadelli Bernstein?
Maybe in a few years. I won't be at its closest for another 10 years.
Hej whats up with the tracker alignment? Is this normal That instead of a steady motion it corrects position every 1.5 seconds?
Does Celestron Nexstar 8 SE has tracking issues?? I was planning to buy it 😯😮
I think my telescope was probably not balanced right.
I also wanted to buy telescope, Wich one is better for beginner . But I like the Celestron next star. Suggestions pls.
I would go with a telescope that can let you do both planets or deep sky objects. How about an 8-in Edge HD.
Thanks for your reply, I will get it soon. Can suggest me any links for buying online.
Hi Mr Chuck I have a question on observing the sun with my telescope. My telescope was made in 2003 its a celestron omni xlt 150 newtonian reflector. Am I able to observe the sun through the eyepiece projected on a piece of paper without damaging my telescope.
I've never tried pointing a reflector telescope at the sun, but I would use protective solar film over the front of it or you might have a meltdown.
Thanks
what's the best telescope or type of telescope for looking at saturn at high sharpness with my eye and not a camera
I would look for a telescope with an 8-inch mirror or bigger.
@@ChucksAstrophotography thank you good sir
Does it track ok with the OTA on the wrong way?
do you have any tips for deep sky with the c8 with the AVX mount and the Zwo 533 mc camera?
Nice setup. Start capturing and you will improve over time.
thanks
TRY GETTING THE RINGS AROUND JUPITER AS WELL!?!?
Now that would be a challenge.
WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY
im kinda dumb, i thought light reflected off a surface , i don't get how we got image from a vacuum area would you mind explaining to me?
We are looking at the light reflect off of the planets. None of the planets can shine on their own.
How have you been going with the RASA?
Don't you think it's a bit too yellow?
First!!!! I think bc they no comments if not hi :)
You were second, lol.
Muahahahaha!
I have a small optical telescope, and not much experience how can I do what you do?
Buy a planetary camera like the one I used in this video, the ASI224MC, and see what happens. A motorized mount would be nice too.
@@ChucksAstrophotography Thank you!
What’s the reducer on the Celestron 8se called?
? Its called a reducer. Don’t understand the question...
It's the Celestron f/6.3 reducer.
What eyepiece do you use please?
Actually, none. I haven't used an eyepiece in over 5 years.
Why is it" tracking upward"?
GEM work better for tracking?
Yes.
You should get an asiair pro - then you won’t need a wired computer for at least 1 of your scopes…
I've been thinking about that.
@@ChucksAstrophotography I have one and love it - but I’m very new to astro. One negative is it’s not so good for planetary as it can’t capture video very fast. But for automating everything else it’s amazing. Also, you can run an Android emulator on your pc to control it if you don’t have a tablet or iPad.
98th view and 24th like
Early bird!
@@ChucksAstrophotography yes... But why can't you capture Saturn's moons
Do you ever capture ufo?
Can I purchase redcat 51?
Maybe you can purchase one for me 😎
@@ChucksAstrophotography ok