Saturn 12th Feb. 2013

[asimov (John)]

This is the first morning I've seen that had passable seeing. As Ozzy said; let the madness begin.

Original 640 X 480 + a 1.2X resample.

C11/DBK618

[jsmoraes (Jorge)]

very nice and sharp image. Congratulations !

[iceman (Mike)]

Beautiful image John!

[asimov (John)]

Thanks Jorge, still processing.

One more for now.

[asimov (John)]

Morning Mike, thanks mate!

[von Tom (Tom)]

Nice one John! I left my Saturn run too late this morning because of PANSTARRS so the seeing has deteriorated because of the rising Sun.

Cheers,

Tom

[asimov (John)]

Thanks Tom. Yes I have to shoot Saturn early here too (50 degrees for this lot) because the seeing slowly goes downhill. Anything over 45 degrees is ok by me. It'll get better as time progresses.

[iceman (Mike)]

Your Saturn is now IOTW!

Good time to talk about Saturn rising and a fantastic image.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Very nice image John well done.

[azagil (Aaron)]

Great Image john, I just picked up my new DBK618 and have yet to give it first light through my C11....hoping to shortly. If I can get an image half as good as yours I will be stoked!! well done!!

[asimov (John)]

Cool! My very first IOTW. Thanks Mike

Thanks Graeme.

Thanks Aaron. It is rather a complicated camera the DBK, but I'm sure you'll pick it up in no time flat. Yell though if you need any advice.

[azagil (Aaron)]

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Thanks Aaron. It is rather a complicated camera the DBK, but I'm sure you'll pick it up in no time flat. Yell though if you need any advice.[/QUOTE]


Thanks heaps for the offer, How many frames roughly were these images...did you shoot @ 60FPS??

[asimov (John)]

No, it's still too small & dim right now to go for 60FPS unless you were at F10-15 with the F10 SCT & IMO you really don't want to be imaging at anything under F20 if it can be avoided. So these were at F22 30FPS 3 min. captures & each stack I went with 1750 due to the rather average seeing.

[Quark (Trevor)]

A nice result Asi and it is only going to get better as it rises higher, earlier.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Thanks very much Trevor. Yes with a bit of luck (seeing + alt) it will only get better.

One more, & I'm all processed out for one day A bit more detail in this one.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Very nice John, your processing of detail & the true colours out is remarkable ! Congrats also on IOTW

[asimov (John)]

Hi Bob, long time no hear mate. Thanks for that! Appreciate your comments

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Double aweeeesome John.
Congrats on the IMAGE OF THE WEEK as well.

[Harley (Gilbert)]

Very nice shoot

[asimov (John)]

Thanks Ralph & Gilbert