Pic: Shot of Atlantis from ground

[Quick_Nick]

I know what you mean. Even though the pictures taken by hubble are far superior to anything that I'll see through the eyepiece, it's still far more enjoyable being outside looking at Saturn through a telescope knowing that the light has come on a path from the sun, bouncing of Saturn, being collected and focussed by your 'scope directly into your eyeball. It also gives you a better feel of where things are when you're under all the constellations rather than having a disembodied (but nonetheless stunning) photo of a nebula.

I was going to say exactly that! Saturn is so much more awesome through your own telescope than in a Hubble image.

 

[n122vu]

Anybody thought about trying to recreate this shot using TelescopeMFD? Would it even look decent?

 

[agentgonzo]

Anybody thought about trying to recreate this shot using TelescopeMFD? Would it even look decent?

It would be possible with TelescopeMFD. However, you'd need to change the sun texture to make it look any good. Would make for a nice orbiter screenshot though. Especially if you stick in some solar prominences/sunspots in your sun texture.