Saturn through a Telescope

Every wonder what Saturn looks like through a large amateur telescope? Well here it is, taken with a TouCam webcam, 3x barlow through a Celestron C9.25".
The shimmering in the image is due to atmospheric turbulence. To keep the planet centered at very high magnification, an equatorial mount was used with accurate polar alignment.

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• Saturn
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• Celestron

[acs123ism]

Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn ar my favourite planets( excluding earth) , and I have a tal 11 from Russia have you heard of one?

[cplwkong]

@acs123ism Yes, Tal makes nice scopes. It is a Maksutov, right? Would be great on planets after it has been cooled down.

[sonbuhitsunei]

Almost doesnt look real...just because it's almost unbelievable that these things are right out there, in our line of sight, and we simply can't see them unless we have a good telescope. I've never had a scope with which I could see much of anything but some large structures on the moon. :( Thinking of getting a Vivitar reflector with 76 mm aperture and up to 525x magnification (doubtful it'd be useful at that magnfication given the size)...what would I be able to see with that? blurs?

[cplwkong]

@sonbuhitsunei 76mm aperture is a bit too small. Try getting a Dobsonian 6" from Orion Telescopes. Very modest price, but you can see some incredible eye popping stuff.

[No1Survivalistxxx]

Does it really look like that :O so detailed like a picture

[cplwkong]

@No1Survivalistxxx For sure, even better when you look through a good telescope on a night with steady air. It will astound you.

[1818lego]

wow that dose not look like ANYTHING i thought it was going to look like,well the universe is AWOSOME and scary because of blackholes and i think its called black matter or black somthing

[cviajero]

amazing



[Buzzardheart]

guys think about it, if only saturn wasn't a gas giant, it would be a beautiful place to visit, to have so many moons and the glorious rings in the night sky, that would be amazing, its a darn shame.

[stsilas01]

Amazing

[GriffithAMPS]

brillant image!!

[zibi2474]

Super

[sparky577]

That is awesome!

[lanceblack888]

fantastic!