Making a picture of Saturn: a Video

[von Tom]

The other day I posted my best Saturn photo so far.

Here is the final image, and here is a youtube video showing the stages of processing I used. Best viewed in HD.

http://youtu.be/P6oIqcA8EMY

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[Nikolas]

Excellent stuff and thanks for the youtube link!

[Larryp]

Nice image, Tom! The video is very interesting and informative:thumbsup:

[rustigsmed]

great video Tom, that noiseware program looks like it works wonders!!

I'll be getting onto that program for sure now. Thanks very much for sharing I will have to try it on some of my old videos.

Cheers,

Rusty

[batema]

Thankyou. Looks great.

[astronobob]

Very informative thanx Tom, I've had a 600D for 20months now and still havent taken any real sought of Vid yet, tried once with the old card but was only fast enough to do the 600x400 size and even then only for a few seconds, Lol , Have the big fast card now but still havent chucked it in there, 2x Lol !
Thanx very much for this great incentive Tom :thumbsup:

[John K]

Amazing to see how DSLR video technology is evolving.

Inside news from Canon suggests that in fact we'll be able to shoot video in raw format and as at high resolution as we can now take stills (don't think this is possible yet) in the future which promises to dramatically improve Astronomical imaging even further.

Interestingly, I also use the same noise processing software as it's free and works a treat.

Well done again on some great imaging which should be very encouraging on the folks without any tracking.

John K.

[iceman]

Holy cow that image is good, huge image scale!

[dvj]

Wow, what a monster image. When I see these amazing planet shots, I'm always disappointed in my own visual observations that don't even come close to the fine resolution captured in these combines. Your video shows the novice how it is done. I really appreciate the fact that the raw images looked really poor! Then stunned that processing can pull out so much detail from such low res images. Manually guided too! Bravo!

[von Tom]

Thanks very much everyone! The image is probably a little too large but I wanted to show it at full res.

Tom

[jjjnettie]

:) Thanks for the insights.

[Saturn%5]

:eyepop: that is one big Saturn well done Tom.