Bill & Ted's Excellent Astro-Picture Pages
Saturn
The planet Saturn is one of the coolest objects to view in a telescope. You can see the rings, a couple moons, and when the viewing is good you can see bands on the planet and a gap in the rings. Photographing Saturn is best done when it is near opposition and at the greatest angular size. A telescope and CCD are recommended. When using film and a telescope we were lucky to get a view of the rings. Most of the time the result was an oblong blob - bogus. Later we moved into CCD and digital cameras where we found better results. Nothing is perfect, but now the images are better than what you see through the telescope - excellent!
Saturn using film and telescope - focus dude!
Another saturn with film - better focus but little to no contrast
Saturn using the CWIP-12a and Celestron 14"
Meade 10" with 2x barlow and CWIP-12a CCD
Canon Digital EOS negative projection from C5
Questar using Meade LPI CCD