Saturn 24th April - Fair Seeing - now with 5200 frame repro added ??

[Screwdriverone]

Hi All,

With the fullish moon up, I gave up on any deep sky and just tested out my new FCUSB and USB2EQ5 direct connect cable that I got for my birthday.

So I swung around to Saturn for a few captures. I forgot just how much disk space these videos take up. BAM, 10 Gb gone in 5 or 6 minutes.....

Anyway, here is a quick go at Saturn from 1334 UT, 1471 frames out of 1800 stacked (60 secs @ 30fps) using Registax 6, captured with DBK21AU618.AS and 5x Televue barlow on the 8" reflector (I assume at F25). Processed in Photoshop CS3 using Astra Image plugins for deconvolution.

Cheers

Chris

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

That turned out well Chris!

Must have a go, I'd be happy with an image like yours.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp]

Looks good, Chris:thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Justin,

I must admit, I keep looking at it, I think it's turned out the best one I have done on Saturn so far.

Cheers

Chris

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Laurie :)

Cheers

Chris

[Rod771]

That's a great result Chris

Nice colour :thumbsup:

Man! I've gotta get one of those 618 camera's

Although :question: I say that about a lot of equipment :)

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Rod.

I agree!

The DBK on the C11 Edge HD would give awesome planetary goodness.

Good fun when the freaking moon is killing everything else.

Cheers

Chris

[U.K.Cowboy]

Nicely done!

[jjjnettie]

Great stuff. :)

[EricB]

Great image Chris, well done!

Eric

[DavidU]

Nice one Chris:thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

Thank you UK Cowboy :)



Cheers Jeanette, thanks :thumbsup:



I appreciate that Eric, thanks mate.



Ta David, I think this one is my best so far, in ordinary seeing too....

Cheers

Chris

[Quark]

Good job Chris, planetary imaging certainly creates lots of data.

Cheers
Trevor

[Solar]

Yep very nice Saturn Chris.

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Trevor, I need more aperture!!!!!! But this is pretty good for an 8 incher.....:P




Thanks Ralph! :D

I have added a repro, well sort of, I stacked 5 videos together, over 5200 frames just to see if it improves anything? Not sure, see what you all think, I may just still like the first one a bit more, I dunno?

Cheers

Chris

[Troy]

Nice Saturn Chris :thumbsup:

[Shiraz]

nice work Chris. regards ray

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Troy :)



Cheers Ray, Thanks mate, it was the DBK that did all the work :)

Chris

[seeker372011]

:thumbsup:

[Screwdriverone]

:2thumbs:

:whistle:

:thanks:

Cheers

Chris

[RobF]

Great going Chris! Love it.

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks Rob, I was just looking at Trevor's PB and saw the planet through the Cassini division on his, seems I have also got it here....:D I was wondering why the rings looked squashed where they crossed the disk, now I know. Yay!

Cheers

Chris

[asimov]

Hi Chris. Nice effort mate. What codec did you use? I'm only asking because if it was Y800 + Y800 & you allowed Reggie to do the debayering, it uses a LOW quality algorithm & the result is a low quality final..

[Screwdriverone]

Hi John,

Thanks mate, I think it was RGB32? I definitely captured in colour and didnt debayer in Registax, so no worries there?

Cheers

Chris

[asimov]

Hi Chris. I never did enough experimentation with the many codecs to choose from, but at the time IC capture kept crashing on me so I ended up leaving things alone.

According to my sources (Emil, creator of AS2 for example) it pays to stay clear of the official colour codecs & use the camera as intended; Y800 + Y800 & debayer after. In the early days my favorite was YUY2 + Unspecified & was producing great images in nice seeing & the only REAL difference I can see is that it takes half the time for programs like Registax or AS2 to process the Y800 data.

[Screwdriverone]

Hmmm, OK that sounds like a plan John.

Thanks for the tip, I will give it a crack!

Cheers

Chris

[Clayton]

Lovely shot Chris!

[Screwdriverone]

Thank you Rob, :D

Cheers

Chris