Contains:  Solar system body or event
Saturn, KHartnett

Saturn

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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With some difficulty, I was able to get the planet in the FOV of my ASI224 and focused. I used an ADC, but the prism adjustments were quite minimal and I'm not sure it helped much. FireCapture nicely calculated that my effective focal length was 6500mm, implying f/27. Reducing the ROI allowed me to record at an average of 121 fps.  I don't think the seeing was quite as good as it was on my previous outing, but there was no ground fog/haze and the higher frame rate of the ASI224 more than compensated for the slightly better seeing but much lower frame rate last time out.

I stacked and processed the best 25% of 25,582 frames of a 3.5 minute video.

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Saturn, KHartnett