Saturn through the Obsessionator, west coast of Clare.

Well Lads,
Frank and I finally got down to the west coast of Clare last night for a near all nighter (I had today off, poor Frank didn't, I don't know how he went to work today !! :shock: )
While there the seeing was excellent for Saturn, so out came the laptop and the webcam and we got this image. I centred and focused the image while Frank ran the laptop.

The moon Rhea is visible in this image, Dione and Tethys are visible in an over enhanced image, but are too faint to show up well here.
Its about 800 frames stacked from a 3k frame AVI, this was with a 3x teleview barlow and the 20" F5 obsession, there were alot on moons visible also around this image.
Once the moon went down the sky was just incredible, we'll put up an observing report later on this one.
Interesting enough we were unable to get a good one of Mars, it seemed to me that the seeing out over the ocean direction where Mars was worse.

Dave i wont say anything else apart from that image should be on the box the Obsession comes in.

This shot alone we got was worth the agony of zero sleep today,
(along with the mag 7 dark skies!! yeah seriously mag 7 - no bother!)
Awesome night.
One in a million.
I'm sure Dave's observing report will be as long as his arm.
I'll post up a brief one also (I used a 12'' dob while Dave used the Obsessionator)
along with some starscapes.

Homer sleep now....
..oh..actually...
no ....I can't...
I'm going out tonight....

Doh!

This shot alone we got was worth the agony of zero sleep today,

You didnt get any sleep before work ? thats tough going.!!

Why bother sleeping. We will all be dead long enough.

First class image Dave. Well done mate.