Seeing Saturn

Students studying Astronomy will try to do some astrophotography in the upcoming academic year. The plan is to try to take photos of interesting objects by connecting a digital SLR camera to the telescope. The photo of Saturn below was achieved using a camcorder looking through the eyepiece. Saturn is roughly 10 AU (astronimcal units - earth sun average distance) from the sun so it is dimmer than quite a few stars.

We look forward to working more on this method and improving the images.

Simon Davis, Head of Physics

June