The seeing was better than at my last attempt a month ago, but it was still coming and going in such a way that it was difficult to complete a good RGB run.
I can't see anything unusual on the planet, but the ringlet and the narrow gap in the C ring show up quite well.
The seeing was better than at my last attempt a month ago, but it was still coming and going in such a way that it was difficult to complete a good RGB run.
I can't see anything unusual on the planet, but the ringlet and the narrow gap in the C ring show up quite well.
it doesn't get much better than that! amazing detail, god view of the Hex storm, great ring detail. i wish i could capture an image half as god as that
I really need to get a better camera, as with the old DMK21 I can only do 15fps at 50% well depth in the R channel. Also my primary is in bad need for a recoat.
Fantastic colour differentiation between the belts Stefan, filter wheel is king
Regards
Sebastian
Thanks Sebastian! Yes, I agree, but also in Saturn's case one has the white rings to calibrate the colour balance which makes the job much easier than with Jupiter.
Just about as good as one could expect really, not too many non Hubble/Cassini/Peach images of Saturn out there any better than this one
Mike
Mike,
I think there is quite a bit of room left for improvement considering that this image was captured with an outdated-generation camera, through a grime mirror in variable seeing.
As John noted, it is processed quite heavily due to rather poor data.
With planetary imaging, the better the data, the less severe the required processing.
I think there is quite a bit of room left for improvement considering that this image was captured with an outdated-generation camera, through a grime mirror in variable seeing.
Well, I look forward to seeing that, please get the new gear
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As John noted, it is processed quite heavily due to rather poor data.
With planetary imaging, the better the data, the less severe the required processing.
I know, tell me about it, same with deep sky...I would love to get a job at Paranal I recon, even as a storeman or cleaner, anything, as long as I could setup nearby...not sure my wife would be too ethusiastic about that though
With deep sky you still need to do highly non linear stretching regardless of how good your data is, but with good planetary data there is little else to do after stacking.
Mark,
I used a self made 16" Dall-Kirkham on Alt-Az mount with field de-rotator.
, I must have missed something.
