Saturn on March 23, 2006
Tonight was the first time in about 18 days that we’ve had clear skies. Quite nice out in the back yard with temperatures around freezing, no wind, and good transparency. Air was pretty steady as well, around 7/10. I sent my hand control off to Celestron to get it replaced with a newer version. I’ve been running my scope with an application called NexRemote. Its not exactly easy to align the scope using the notebook keyboard, but I’m getting better at it. The good news is that NexRemote is much more accurate pointing than the old hand control.
After collimating the scope, the first target was saturn. I decided to up the frame rate from 10 fps which I usually use to 20 fps. The image was a bit better.
