Saturn 1am Brisbane 17th March, Dobsonian and DSLR

[von Tom]

Some nice seeing for Saturn this morning :) Canon EOS 600D video crop mode, 5x Powermate, 12" SkyWatcher Goto Dobsonian, manually tracked.
A muted Saturn and a more enhanced Saturn :) shown at 100% capture scale, cropped.

Update added a reduced size image using a Sigma2x teleconverter.

Thread with video here: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=104924 showing how the final image was reached.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[Matt Wastell]

Exceptional images Tom - these are some of the best DSLR I have seen - a big scope works well for them.

[John Hothersall]

Can't believe how you get these but they are splendid with Encke possibly showing.

John.

[Saturn%5]

Very nice Tom.

[Quark]

Outstanding work Tom, you are sure doing it the hard way with a manually tracked Dob and DSLR but what a super result.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov]

No, I haven't seen better with a DSLR either. I love it when people squeeze every drop out of their equipment & technique. Well done Tom!

[Larryp]

Excellent, Tom!

[FranckiM06]

Pioufff :eyepop:It is really great shot and splendid result with EOS 600D. Me too, I can't beleive that you get better result that some others astronomers who use the camera Flea or DMK or Basler. This camera is very good to do video.
Congratulations about these stunning images.
Franck

[Shiraz]

beautiful image Tom - congratulations. ray

[jjjnettie]

Absolutely gorgeous. :)

[von Tom]

Thankyou, everyone, very much for the kind and encouraging comments! I do like to get as much out of the equipment as possible. I have finished processing an image made using the above equipment as well as a Sigma 2x teleconverter. Total focal length on the EOS 600D is 15,000mm, centre crop. Here it is in its original capture size and in a slightly reduced size, which is now added to the original post. In editing these I made much use of successive gaussian blur then unsharp mask.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[U.K.Cowboy]

Well I've never seen DSLR planetary images like that before! Outstanding! Power to the DOB men!!

[Quark]

You are the DSLR man Tom.
An outstanding result for any Camera / scope combination.

:bowdown:

Regards
Trevor

[von Tom]

Thanks Stuart and Trevor. I'll put up a video of the capture for comparison.

Tom

[prokyon]

Wow, stunning! Manual tracking and DSLR. Unbelievable, you are a genius!

[Paul Haese]

Very nice Tom. Great seeing and good processing makes images such as this. Well done.

[Solar]

Great imaging Tom no doubt a
bout it, first rate.:thumbsup:

[leon]

Don't know how you guys do this stuff, just awesome captures Tom, well done indeed.

Leon

[FlashDrive]

That's Impressive for a DSLR capture .......Outstanding. :thumbsup:

Flash...!!

[von Tom]

Thanks guys.
I started a thread showing how this image was made - including video - here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=104924

Here's a pic of Titan from the same session. 1700 frames stacked, result upsampled and saturation increased.

[gavcol]

Once again, excellent work Tom. :thumbsup:

Regards

Gav