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Originally Posted by doppler
That's a very respectable Saturn. Keeping the frame rate up is hard when imaging smaller objects even when they look bright in the eyepiece. It's a pity with mars moving away and shrinking in apparent size, the dust storm is clearing nicely.
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Yes Mars is smaller but brighter. I am starting to see surface features where it was covered in dust before.
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Originally Posted by Forge
Wow, I've never been able to capture the reddish tinge on Saturn that you have there.
What kind of processing did you do in Photoshop for this image?
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Most of the photoshop processing was with unsharp masks. I didn't use wavelets in Registax as I've found Photoshop to be very similar in outcome. The colour seemed to come more or less naturally.
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Originally Posted by sil
Beautiful saturn there.
Why limited to 12fps? I'd thought the 183 was much faster. are you shooting at its full resolution (which will limit you to slow fps) or a cropped smaller resolution (where it'll run considerably faster). btw recording to a HDD will also limit recording speed, a SSD will open the throttle for you as a recording destination. I suspect you can get much more fps with your setup and thus more detail with your planets. I use a 178 and get about 20fps i think at full resolution, but when i limit to a small res ROI I get over 150fps and get over 20,000 frames to process regularly for a 2-3min capture.
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I managed to get 70fps with Mars, but could only manage 12 with Saturn. I thought this was a bit low too. I'm using ROI at the lowest resolution 320x240 so it can't be data lag. I'm also using USB2 and a SATA drive, not SSD, but again at 320x240 it shouldn't need it. Maybe the 183 is just slower than the 224, 178 or 290? Sharpcap settings maybe?