Why RIGHT NOW is the best time to see Saturn!
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- Taking a Picture of SATURN Through my Telescope.
Telescope Used: bit.ly/3oPA8MQ
Camera Used: bit.ly/43YFuEx
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I connect a camera to my Celestron Edge HD 11 telescope to take a close-up picture of the planet Saturn from my backyard.
Saturn Opposition takes place on August 14th, 2022. The ringed planet will make its closest approach to Earth, appearing at its largest of the year.
The final image is a stack of the best 2000 frames of about 15000 taken with the ZWO ASI585MC camera. There are certainly better pictures of Saturn online, but this is one of my best images of Saturn to date!
Thank you for watching, and clear skies!
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Trevor! Thank you so much man. One of the main reasons I ever started a CZcams channel was inspiration from you and all your deep sky work.
Awesome Saturn image by the way 🪐🔭
Ahh you saw it!! I always look to your solar system work for inspiration/guidance. Clear skies man!!
Yes of course Saturn is amazing :)
I was tagged in it on Facebook. I told them “I have hit the pinnacle and I can rest” since I was in your video 🤣❤️
*clear skies*
I cried the first time I saw Saturn in my telescope.
It's a beautiful and humbling experience viewing these mythical planets that you learn and study in school, but few ever really see with their own eyes.
Thanks for sharing.
I took a photo of Saturn a few nights ago. The moon was so bright and I couldn’t get a good image lol! I still saw Titan and Rhea (the two largest moons of Saturn) and it’s rings. No matter how many photos I took, the image will never match what I saw. Saturn is gorgeous! I can’t wait to see Mars for my first time! Thanks for you videos Trevor, your an inspiration to me and my family ⭐️ 💛 ⭐️
I also have that feelling, pics are nice and all, but nothing can match you seeing it with your eyes, not even Cassini's
Remember stacking and wavelet sharpening.
@ Mr Crazy I as well had trouble with the moon beign so bright I could not take a picture of Saturn or Jupiter but what I saw and what my kid saw will forever be engraved in my soul some things are just worth watching than taking pictures
So true Crazy Clever Saturn 🪐 is so Amazing Awesomeness.I also used the Barlow Lens last night on 08/12/22.
@@alexmarjunior975 So True So True
I've bought a telescope during the lockdown and when I saw saturn for the first time and the rings, I cried. Same day I saw jupiter with 4 moons and the red eye/spot. It was amazing .
Know what you mean. I went out to see the Supermoon but when I saw Saturn to the upper left I had to shift my viewing focus. I am amazed I can see the rings of Saturn, on a planet over 820 MILLION miles away from my backyard. I stayed up way too late in awe of what I was able to see. It's hard to explain to people who have never seen it like we have.
One night I went looking at random stars with my camera, and then I was blown away when I spotted Saturn by chance-l realized right them how I took the majesty of the night sky for granted, and it made me sad (for my entire life up until that moment, anyway).
Dude, where did you buy the telescope from? How much? Can you explain the spec? Sorry if my english is wrong🤐
HOW DO U FIND IT I WANNA CRY
What telescope did you buy
Trevor, thanks for all you work here. I got my telescope out for the first time in about 5 years this evening. My 10 year old daughter begged me to wake her up as she loves space. We have been out here looking at saturn and jupiter for about an hour now and wont be going to bed any time soon.
I began to tear up when the final image was shown and I’m yet to see it myself through a telescope. Even just seeing it on my screen is a moving experience. Thank you for displaying your amazing work.
First time I ever saw Saturn was by complete accident. I got home late from the shooting range and it was really dark on the farm. I saw something bright in the sky and pulled out my spotting scope and as I held it there I thought to myself man that looks like Saturn. And it was Saturn and it was the coolest experience ever makes you feel really good about the universe you live in
I haven't got a telescope yet but my Celestron 15-35 x 70 zoom binoculars can see the rings of Saturn. It's small but you can see the black space between the planet and rings. Like you said a life changing experience. Makes you feel so small in the universe.
Nice! I have the 15x70 celestrons, find it hard to keep it all steady though. Do you always use a tripod when using yours?
Yup a tripod is a must. With the 15 x 70 you will see Saturn more as an oval. The zoom feature let's you see the rings.
@@robl6933 that's cool man, I didn't know there was a zoom version of the 15x70! Good to know. I got mine at a bargain price from a shop closing down years ago, great quality instruments. Binoculars are nice for when you don't want to mess around with a telescope. I just got myself a heavy, oldschool used video tripod from ebay, this should help massively with the stability. I don't think the new, cheap and skinny tripods would be up to hefting such a heavy pair of binos! Will give it a go next time it's clear around here
Cool. My set up was fairly inexpensive. I got the tripod for 100 dollars on Amazon. Can hold 10 pounds and can get to 7 feet tall. And the zoom Celestron was around the 200 dollar mark. I bought it a few years on Amazon. Fairly cheap way to see Saturn's rings and you can see the lines on Jupiter. It's small but cool.
@@robl6933 Nice, $100 will be a decent tripod!
My favorite thing about this video is that I can hear the sound of insects in the background during the motivational/emotional part of the voice track, which tells me you recorded that audio under the stars, when you felt it and meant it. That is top-notch.
Me and my family just took a picture of Saturn last night , it was one of those Surreal moments, because we just bought it first Telescope a month ago and for many days could not get the focus right for a minute I thought it was broken lol.
Anyways as a person who’s always loved looking at the sky and science in general , finding that first dot in the sky and always thinking it was a star until you put your telescope right on it and focus it , and bam a planet right before your eyes.
My main hobbies are cars Japanese cars to be more precise , but now that I got a 6se I can’t stop looking at upgrades and add ones , and figure out what a refractor vs reflector are , it’s been so fun , so now ima have to split my hobby money two way lol.
And to tell the truth the reason I bought a telescope is because I found out I can take picture of the milkey way with my phone camera , which i never knew I could do that until I saw a CZcams short on it, so I decided to give it a try and what do you know…. nothing so I looked it up and found out what long exposure was and RAW formats all things I never knew what they were. Long story short , when I finally got it I thought it was the most amazing thing , so decided to buy a telescope , now knowing what I do now obviously the 6se wasn’t the best choice for astrophotography, but it been really fun looking at planets and actually learning the night sky with it use one the glass eye piece , I’m looking for a refractor scope now so I can build another telescope for the long exposure photos, but it’s been kinda hard for the fact there so much information and products lol.
What most beginners cannot help to underestimate is the importance of a good mount. Beginners start to ask about which telescope they are supposed to buy, whilst ignoring the seemingly boring mount. Without a proper mount, the best telescope in the world will not do much good.
I could take nice pictures from M31 Andromeda with my modest Sky-Watcher EQ5 mount and a Sky-Watcher 120/600 achromat. All it took was a proper polar alignment, after which the RA-motor took care of the tracking and the old Pentax DSLR took an array of subs. For Jupiter and Saturn, I used the same mount, on which I put the 190/1000 Mak-Newt and an astro-camera to catch video's in RAW-format.
Now, I also have a Celestron CGEM mount. Second-hand, but still a good mount, and sturdy enough for the rather heavy 190/1000. The EQ5 is also good, but simply just not heavy enough.
Never underestimate the importance of a proper mount and what it is supposed to do for you.
The planet Saturn is a jewel in our night sky, when I started this hobby 11 years ago I used to do planetary imaging first Jupiter then Mars & when Saturn came round I were blown away, I remember seeing it for the first time & instead of imaging it I just stared at it for hours through an eyepiece just mesmerised by the view. I did image it a few nights later & back then I were using a Skywatcher 200P & EQ5 pro mount & found that a 3X barlow did a pretty job at 3000mm but any more than that & it turned to mush. I certainly was pretty average doing planetary & over the years they got lower & lower so harder to image in the UK. I noticed when I were out imaging the Bubble nebula that Jupiter was nice & high again so maybe a scope with a nice long focal length will be needed soon.
Great video Trevor & clear skies.
I also took a photo of Saturn last week including 4 moons with my home-built dobsonian telescope without tracking (300mm primary mirror).
Every 20 seconds I needed to manually adjust the telescope position to get Saturn in the field of view again, but I was very happy with the end result.
Seeing Saturn for the first time through my little Celestron Power Seeker 127 really solidified my love of astronomy and my eventual growth into astrophotography. Thank you Trevor for all the inspiration and guidance you give us new comers! Your comment about Saturn putting things into perspective really struck a chord. Cheers, sir!
The first time I saw Saturn with my own eyes was so profound, it still effects me to this day. Also reveal music was dope! Not grimey at all.
@Telegram me 👉 astrobackyard1 Gee this doesn't look suspicious at all! I can't wait to claim my so called prize
Love the video! After years of following you on CZcams, I finally took the plunge last year and bought a telescope. Getting to see Jupiter and Saturn with my own eyes is something I will never forget. That night I also got to see and HEAR a meteorite streak across the sky. Thank you for the inspiration!
@tradde11 Truth!
Of course, compared to a picture, well, just Cassini has blown my mind, the actual human eye tissue and visual nerves stimulation from a a planet will never win.
I think you would probably like to spend some time here where I live - Scottish highlands. Dark skies galore (when there’s no cloud of course). I’m just back in from looking at Jupiter through my binoculars- it’s moons are so bright at the moment.
I just love what you do and your enthusiasm is infectious. When one looks out beyond our atmosphere at the enormity of space, you just want to yell out to the inhabitants of earth ‘just get on with each other - step back from your craziness’!
Anyway as always, great vid Trevor.
Just bought my first small dobson tabletop (by your advice) 2 weeks ago. Needless to say I was VERY excited to see Saturn's rings for the first time.
Reveal music was sick. I got goosebumps towards the end of the video. Great job Trevor!
Rick - Phew!! It was pretty heavy - but it passed my "goosebump test" too Clear skies!
Awesome Photo there Trevor, I've been Getting great Photo's of Saturn lately, Definitely see The Rings Tilting, Never Gets old!
The music had me tappin' my knuckles on my desk! Nice picture Trevor. I like the new landscape of AstroBackyard!
I saw Saturn yesterday and I can still see it from my own eyes! It's amazing
I have enjoyed every video you have out out (can't really think of one clunker), but your voice-over on this one was extra special. The "world" in 2022 is a daily adventure and you talking about Saturn making our world just a little bit smaller was well stated. Keep up the great work!!
Dude you are really a good story teller! That is one of the things I am leaning with astrophotography is telling the stories behind each picture! Beautiful shot of Saturn, well done!
40C in Canada? Wow man. That image with the stars behind Saturn was totally awesome and gave it depth
It's the South of Canada, so yes, it can happen. As it can happen in the Netherlands, which is at the same latitude as the range between Calgary and Edmonton. Not that often, as hot summer-days are more like 30° to 34°, but 40° sometimes can happen.
I love how your rig is GIANT. Again, nice video. 👍
Maaaan!! This was sick, loved every second!! I really feel the urge the put my SCT on the mount and have a go at this myself now!
As always, thank you for sharing and inspiring people with what you do! :-) Clear skies!
Thanks so much, Luke. Clear skies brother
I bought a celestron 114 at a yard sale for $25, used it last night to view Jupiter, and full moon. What a good investment! Hope to catch Saturn soon.
It was really great to warch your video and drinking morning coffe.
Trevor. You are so mighty kind and generous to share Live vids of Saturn. So much resources needed to capture these shots. I have only seen the Planets on Charts But today I saw it 'live' thank you Kind Man. Your commentaries are so informative and meaningful. "Distance of Saturn at that moment 1.3 Billion ....."
Super effort. You got it in hand!
I absolutely love your vids man, you really got me into astrophotography and the love for our home planet as well as the beautiful sky, planets and nebula. im in a bortle 4 location so i can see a good amount of stars and i jus love looking up at them and jus thinking about how lucky we are as a species to exist and to never take anything for granted. I hope you have a fantastic day/night and always, Clear Skies
Great video production. Thank you for keeping us inspired.
Reveal music was badass indeed! Great vid Trevor 🤙
Trevor, I see that you use acer's enduro laptop during these hot days. Same here in Arizona, normal laptop overheats in 15 minutes and throttles or even worth (at least it happened to me). But we are not so lucky these days, it's a monsoon season for us, meaning clouds every day.
I Got Mine Last Night…With My 6se and The Zwo385MC😁Im Happy With It,lol..Plus I Stayed Out For The Pleiades And Orion,Saturn Was The 1st Object I Saw Thru An Observatory Telescope.Beautiful Image As Always,Thank You,and Clear Skies❤️🙏🏼✨🔭🌏
Always enjoy the videos when you take images of the planets well done Trev
Wicked image mate!!!!
the reveal music was on point, didnt expect to be vibing to an astrophotography vid lol
Awesome video man! Loved every second of it! Saturn looks awesome!
Always love your music dude! Love your Saturn picture man.
Thanks Caleb!!
I saw Saturn for the first time tonight and it blew me away there is nothing better than seeing a planet for the first time
WELL DONE SIR !!! The best object in the sky.
another quality Video Trevor take care and clear skies to u bud from a very hot Manchester UK
Great to be able to catch the premier. Awesome video Trevor - you and your vids got me into astrophotography. Clear skies all.
Thanks Ryan!
Like the pale blue dot reference. Very nice. Great pic.
I thought the music was spot-on!!! I liked it. Great video!!!
Great editing, tons of education, cool images - 10/10
I just wanted to say I absolutely love your videos. As a total beginner to all of this, the way you speak about things is real easy to understand. A real inspiration to carry on when things get frustrating. Keep up the good work my man!
Pretty cool! Well done 👍 I’m hoping to do some planetary soon!
Long live the hand controller! But really, another great video, love the music as always! I'll soon be in the planetary game. A new focuser is arriving today, for the 8" Meade I picked up at Cherry Springs. It currently suffers from mirror flop.
LOL! Congrats on the new focuser - enjoy, man!
That was a wow! For me. Thank you for sharing this. I have to get me a telescope some day.
great video i also will photograph saturn now
recently got a 10" Dobsonian and have had nothing but clouds and rain for the past 2 weeks he in the SE US. Fingers crossed for clear skies this weekend.
Just mind blowing capture man 😍😍🔥🔥
I have captured mine too
Gotta post in a couple of days 🪐
The experience is next level 🤩
I had first light on the same Barlow last night looking at Saturn! Have some friends over for the meteor shower for a couple nights and just chilling in the woods in Arkansas! Keep being awesome.
Goddamn you guys can just go out in the woods and not get murked by some psycho or wildlife? Super jelly of that, that and friends that actually care about astronomy. Have fun!
@@ridleyroid9060 hah! No I live in the woods, 20 acres in the middle of no where and love it. Solid bortle 4. And for friends that love astronomy, I lure them in with tales of what there is to see, and they leave with memories and pictures. (Read bbq and beer, plan on spending the night, then make them look thru the telescope)
Very nice. To take planetary photography to the next level one has to make certain that collimation is spot on.
Sick picture. Totally love it
Just finished observing Saturn in my Janky little telescope in Fallbrook California, my first time !! Hot damn, its tiny, but the rings are perfectly defined, I made a bunch of Observations of Jupiter several years ago when it was close, and got 4 moons at once.
But SATURN ! never thought I could see it with my little Celestron telly.
So cool.
Astonishing photo! And thank you for inspirations.
The ring is quite bright. Probably due to days of opposition. It could be interesting with a picture 14 days from now, to see the Seerlinger effect, of ring brightening.
Beat regards from Denmark
Love the nod to Carl Sagan there, looking back on all of us the pale blue dot. Great pic of Saturn - I've been trying to image it with my Celestron Nexstar 5se and a Canon R, but it's so tiny! I might check out a zwo astrocam and a barlow. Thanks for sharing 🪐
I just took the plunge and ordered my very first telescope. I ordered an Apertura AD8 Dobsonian 8''! I've laid up on my roof for countless nights staring into the sky unaided or with a pair of binoculars. It's time to get a little more serious and I hope taking this step is something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Your astro vids are still the best. So inspiring, thank you Trevor! Especially love your narrative and effects and edits. Do Try ZWO's 'ASI studio' - video stack. - no pipp. no autostakkert. no registax. it gives you a great image and allows simple edits in 30seconds.
Thanks for everything Trevor
yesterday i was able to capture saturn. not so good but
the rings were visible
and i have a telescope with 300mm. focal length. 1/¹⁰ of yours. but I'm a beginner and
I'm so happy. because of you thank you 💓💓
I this was such a amazing sight I could see Saturns rings with eyes
you nailed the music don't worry.
Hi Trevor, great video, thanks for sharing it. You and your good lady and your dog make some great videos and inspire many thousands of people who watch your presentations. Well done on the Saturn video, looks beautiful and I love the new house, lots of extra room for even more equipment 👍. Best regards from Wales UK 🇬🇧.
The humidity in southern New Jersey where I live is always high and disgusting. It’s really daunting on me when I wanna shoot at night. I need “Goldie locks zone” weather conditions. I’m only working with a canon, star tracker, and a rokinon 135mm F/4. I’m trying. Gotta be persistent. Great video as always Trevor. Hope you enjoy the new back yard!
Building my first astrophotography rig for deep sky imagery. Love to have your thoughts on my order list:
Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Sky Watcher Esprit 100MM ED
ASI 183MC Pro
Sky Watcher Evoguide 50DX APO
ASI AS1290MM Mini CMOS Guide Scope
Pegasus Power Box
ASI Air Plus
--->Your processing guide!
Thank you for your tremendous videos and for sparking an interest into a new post retirement hobby of Astrophotography that I didn't know was possible.
Col DB
Dude - that's a SOLID list! I like that you're starting with a color camera. You won't require a filter wheel and an expensive set of filters. Potentially SLIGHTLY oversampled with that camera (2.4 um pixels) - but you'd be close to 1 arcsec/pixel - which is near the ideal range. And yes - get the ASIAIR and thank me later!! Clear skies - and thank you!
No flattener/reducer?
@@ancientcolors Comes with the scope
I’m also finishing my rig! Hyped to get some results. Hope you get some too.
I love your channel man, keep it going!
Thank you for time and sharing. The weather here needs a lot of rain, etc. Lake Meade if you heard needs help. It's in GODS Hands. When I watch your video, this keeps me from screwing up..
Great reveal transition on showing the finished picture! Great video again! Thanks
I like how you wear a red headlamp but have bright lighting for your camera setup regardless haha!
Last time I looked the tilt of the rings was quite different. It's jaw dropping to see it through the eyepiece then take your eye away to the very faint dot it is in the sky...that was using my CPC 1100.
I was a bit late to get the optimal photo, but I finally got the Cassini Division for the first time recently and I couldn't be more happy about it.
Outstanding brother!!!!!!
Excellent Video. Amazing! Thank You.
Trevor, another great video. Nice image. Nice editing, really your transition to the image, cool idea. Saturn definitely on my short-list this Summer. Music was fit the vid perfect.
Another great video! Love everything you put out!
awesome video and final image, Trevor! I don't have much but just a basic scope from walmart, but I was able to see the rings the other night, you're right, it's lifechanging and really feels amazing to see them with your own eyes.
I've had great seeing one night and got that kind of resolution on Saturn near zenith with my 6" Newtonian and eyepieces years ago. Hope to see those conditions again.
I saw saturn and it's rings with a cheap newtonian in bortle 9 off my balcony the other day. I was astonished at how clear I could see it.
Beautiful shot man
Very cool Trevor..my last attempt was a little yellow blob with a ring. 😆
Great video Trevor! I have been doing planetary imaging with a smartphone handheld on my 8SE and the results are so amazing! Can't believe that astro imaging has become this easy now a days. And the music is good as always. Looking to get a dedicated planetary camera now.
Great video, l'll be looking for it this weekend in Toronto with my 9.25"
Man! Yur videos are so good 👍
Aloha!!!
Saw Saturn for the first time ever using a super cheap telescope, I was SHOCKED. The rings are so beautiful. I saw Jupiter too, but Saturn just has something about it. Breathtaking moment.
Music for the reveal was a fine, but the levels were a bit high for my ear buds. Keep up the great work! 👍
Good stuff man. Definitely want to try and image this as well. :) The music is good!
Great music and video. 👍🏻
Beautiful planet... nice job.
Well done. Congrats
Half a year ago, I got to see saturn through my telescope and it was awesome! The image you took was great for capturing the Casini and Encke division and grabbed some high detail that you normally wouldn't see.
Although astrophotography is starting to become a thing of the past for me, I was glad to take a part of it and I'll definitely keep watching your content because it's just that good.
I have really been enjoying watching your videos. It may be time for me to get back into astronomy, all I ever did was visual with an 8" Dob, but I had a blast with it ( still deep in the garage ) and was involved in a club with a low and high level site for star parties I occasionally went to. They had everything from a lot smaller than mine to a 20" obsession Dob and several into your kind of astrophotography. I always thought my next step would be a larger Dob, but watching your videos has me interested in perhaps trying to dabble in your direction, a totally different direction for me. Thanks for all you share, you are an inspiration.
I got access to some binoculars as a pre-curser to a telescope one of the first things I went to check out was Saturn. Though a small speck in the sky I was still able to resolve other objects around it that my eye alone could not. It makes me very excited for what a telescope could see. I am still excited to be able to gaze upon things like the moon and some sweet constellations in the meantime :p
I saw it last night for the first time on my new 130 SLT, it was AWESOME.
Nice one Trevor 🔭👍
bought my first telescope recently as i heard saturn was at opposition and couldnt have spent my money any better
Great soundtrack. 👍
Great video as always!
I still remember my first encounter with Saturn through my old Acuter fieldscope back in 2006.
Just something special to see, and I still love watching my friends reactions when they get the oppurtunity to spot the ringed planet.
im really interested in astrophotography, I now use an Skywatcher refractor, and if any have some tips regarding software for Mac, i would really apprechiate it =)
Clear skies, and best regards from Norway!
Last time I was able to shoot anything was back in June. Clouds, rain, winds. Been getting one or the other or all 3 almost on a daily basis in Vegas.
I really wish I could see it with my own eyes actually from a space shuttle looking out of the window