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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · The Tamron does Saturn


It was "mostly" clear tonight, but still with some high atmospheric haze I knew the resulting images wouldn't be crystal clear. But I thought I'd still try to shoot Saturn.

I used a Canon 70D body, 150-600mm Tamron zoom, and a 1.4x Tamron TC, yielding an effective focal length of ~1344mm (probably closer to 1300mm). Here is one of the images.







May 30, 2014 at 11:30 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · The Tamron does Saturn


Nice work!


May 30, 2014 at 11:42 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · The Tamron does Saturn


Impossible! The 70D is way too noisy to shoot at such high ISO, and everyone knows that the 150-600 is crap

Seriously - very nicely done. Now we just need some ducks in that picture!



May 30, 2014 at 11:42 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · The Tamron does Saturn


Thanks for the kind compliments. I wish I lived where there were darker, clearer skies!

Saturn is actually a pretty small target. Here is a full-size un-cropped image taken at the same focal length where you can barely see Saturn.







May 30, 2014 at 11:47 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · The Tamron does Saturn


Can anyone tell us how far Saturn is away from the Earth TODAY?

And where that falls in between the closest and farthest distances away from Earth in a given orbit?



May 30, 2014 at 11:48 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · The Tamron does Saturn


I checked online here to get the current distance:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar/

I went here to convert AU to miles:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/calculator.php

Saturn is about 832,977,000 miles away as of the time I'm writing this.



May 31, 2014 at 12:15 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · The Tamron does Saturn


Awesome! Nice job!


May 31, 2014 at 12:31 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · The Tamron does Saturn


Cool, thanks for sharing!


May 31, 2014 at 02:58 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · The Tamron does Saturn


Nice! Why did you use such a small aperture? Did you shoot manual exposure?


May 31, 2014 at 09:03 AM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · The Tamron does Saturn


Yes, manual exposure.

Smaller aperture chosen because sharpness of this lens is maximized there. Plus, any extra tiny DOF when focusing at infinity can be helpful, especially since I didn't do critical LiveView focus.



May 31, 2014 at 09:22 AM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · The Tamron does Saturn


..... Jeez, amazing.


May 31, 2014 at 10:22 AM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · The Tamron does Saturn


Wow, amazing. How do you know what part of the sky to focus on? 1300mm capture such a small section of the sky and there's no way you could see Saturn in the viewfinder.


May 31, 2014 at 10:52 AM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · The Tamron does Saturn


That is cool!

Wes N.



May 31, 2014 at 12:37 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · The Tamron does Saturn


cameron12x wrote:
Thanks for the kind compliments. I wish I lived where there were darker, clearer skies!

Saturn is actually a pretty small target. Here is a full-size un-cropped image taken at the same focal length where you can barely see Saturn.


I like this one better

just kidding



May 31, 2014 at 12:56 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · The Tamron does Saturn


That photo is freaking amazing!

Now, if you blow it up even further, one can just make out a scantily clad blonde with a 7d + tc + sigmonster standing on the third ring and focused on earth

Seriously though, awesome pic - you have amazed my teenager! And, that's hard to do.

-John



May 31, 2014 at 08:30 PM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · The Tamron does Saturn


I say this with respect, but why do I think that is not possible? If it is real, amazing.


May 31, 2014 at 09:34 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · The Tamron does Saturn


jeraldcook wrote:
Wow, amazing. How do you know what part of the sky to focus on? 1300mm capture such a small section of the sky and there's no way you could see Saturn in the viewfinder.


Well, you can see from the un-cropped image that my aim wasn't perfect.

Seriously, you can see it in the viewfinder with this lens. You can also see it easily with the naked eye (it just looks like any other star). I knew where to look, composed at 150mm, zoomed to 600mm and then did a quick focus in LiveView (zoomed 10X) before shooting a bunch of images at different ISO/shutter speed combinations.



May 31, 2014 at 09:48 PM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · The Tamron does Saturn


MDJAK wrote:
I say this with respect, but why do I think that is not possible? If it is real, amazing.


With all respect, why don't you believe that this is possible?

Are you one who also does not believe that we have put a man on the moon? (just kidding.)



Jun 01, 2014 at 08:44 AM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · The Tamron does Saturn


Still cool, even if just a blip



Jun 01, 2014 at 01:59 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · The Tamron does Saturn


You know it's far easier to shoot uranus and you don't even need to crop.


Jun 01, 2014 at 06:03 PM
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