Saturn with Vesta Pro

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After being distracted by the Moon for many months, I tried to image Saturn with the Vesta Pro. Saturn is a tough target to get any detail out of. These pictures were taken about a week after opposition.

Taken with a Philips Vesta Pro 690K webcam. I unscrewed the lens and mounted it to half of a plastic 35mm film canister so that it would fit into a 1.25" eyepiece socket. The telescope used was a Meade LX-90 (8" SCT, f/10). Pictures were captured and stacked using K3CCDTools or Registax. Further processing done with Paint Shop Pro 7