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Thankks everyone for all your kind words! :oops:

Hi Keith,
That's a first for the site, an animation of Saturn, you can just about see the 2 storms move, cool !!. The image isn't all that bad, it looks like it was slightly out of focus at capture and is a little blue, and there is no way around that focus issue really, so your image isn't bad at all.
Image quality isn't really the point anyway, the point is that you captured something unusual and that alone is what really counts.

And he captured the image in Bray !!!! not in a quality sky or conditions and he is new to the gear. :shock:

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society

Nice images Keith .How did you manage to track Saturn with the dobsonian at such high magnification?

Nice images Keith .How did you manage to track Saturn with the dobsonian at such high magnification?

I have a Brian Reed Roundtable equatorial platform. I still had to keep my fingers on the tracking speed buttons on the platform control pad as at that magnification, Saturn was still drifting out of frame quite quick. Would also have to re-aim the scope a few times during capture. Don't think my polar alignment was too good and I also wonder is the default tracking speed set right on the platform.