May Day Saturn

[von Tom]

Saturn last night, 1st May, from Brisbane. The first image is at capture size, the second reduced and disc detail enhanced.

Canon EOS 600D, 1080p Video Crop Mode, 1500frames, 30fps, 1/30sec, ISO 6400, Auto white balance and Auto picture style, 2x Barlow, 5x Powermate, 1500mm f/5 12" SkyWatcher Goto Dobsonian, auto tracked this time :)

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[Larryp]

Very nice, Tom:thumbsup:

[pluto]

Excellent! :D

[Deeno]

Damn good!

[rustigsmed]

awesome work tom, i have nearly the same setup and can get nowhere near that result.
cheers,

Rusty

[John Hothersall]

It was blurry for me so I packed up! Fine colours and banding.

John.

[allan gould]

Very nice images, Tom. I was going to go out but didn't so of course I should have.
Allan

[Quark]

Very nice work Tom, a fine result.

Cheers
Trevor

[U.K.Cowboy]

That smaller image is a peach! Auto tracking eh? Isn't that cheating? ;)

[Shiraz]

nice work Tom - excellent detail. regards ray

[Star Catcher]

That is an impressive image and scale there Tom! Well done.
Ted

[asimov]

Very nice Tom! HAHA Stuart! Cheating! That's what I said about stacking a few years ago LMAO :eyepop::lol::thumbsup:

[EricB]

Great job Tom!

Eric

[gregbradley]

Really nice. First I have seen using the DSLR video technique.

Greg.

[Ric]

Lovely capture Tom

Very clear and detailed.

[Draco]

:eyepop:nice

[Clayton]

Lovely work Tom:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Jon]

That's beautiful. Best result I have seen with a DSLR video crop-mode image. What did you use for stacking, what settings did you use e.g. Number of align points etc.?

[Dennis]

Excellent work Tom!

Cheers

Dennis

[von Tom]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.
Jon, stacked in Autostakkert! using 200 pixel squares.

Stuart, yes I did cheat. My fingers weren't fast enough to switch between slewing azimuth at 2x rate and altitude at 1x rate for manual tracking as the planet was approaching meridian so high up. ;)

Cheers,
Tom

[ThinBlueLine]

Absolutely beautiful ! :D

[Ciarlotto]

Excellent image, Tom...really fantastic. I'm surprised about your ability to obtain always so good images on solar sistem objects! In the last days, I worked with mak 127 at solar imaging, but your works on Saturn encourage me to try some shoots with Dob122 and ASI120MM on Saturn... I 'm only waiting for a good seeing condition.
Again, congratulations!

[johnnyt123]

How are you able to focus and get fine detail?

looks fantastic!

[dvj]

Simply beautiful.

[mexhunter]

Excellent work!!!