Yet another Saturn from Melbourne from the morning of 20th ...

[bratislav]

As seeing improved (but breeze started to pick up) I decided to finish the imaging session with couple of non-filtered captures of Saturn as that allowed high frame rate (30fps or so) even at Martian-esque (large) scale. Having the luxury to be able to pick from nearly 12000 frames resulted in a "as good as it gets in a C11" luminance image, IMHO. But color data captured earlier was unfortunately done at slightly different angle and scale (as I was observing using -er- eyes in the meantime :lol:) so matching proved nearly impossible.

After a lot of fiddling in Photoshop I finally managed to align color data to the pure luminance data. Luckily a perfect match is not quite needed as color channel doesn't really hold that much information, so crude mouse driven rotation and pixel-level (not sub-pixel) alignment had to suffice.

Color might be a bit rich for my taste but I actually liked what I saw in this forum before, so here it is.

[prokyon]

Wow, stunning. So many details in the rings and I like the colors.

[ANDREA MANIERO]

Amazing shot !

[h0ughy]

that compliments John's shot nicely, they are both winners in my opinion - fantastic

if i can ask what was the camera you used?

[SkyViking]

That's a fantastic Saturn image, complete with northern hexagon and all :thumbsup:
And I really like the saturated colours, awesome view!

[FranckiM06]

I just have one word : WONDERFUL:eyepop:

[bratislav]

Thanks for the comments, guys! Appreciated.
As always, I used QHY5L II with Edmund dichroic RGB filter set.

[strongmanmike]

Wow, great image, I also like the saturation, if it's there colour needs to be seen :thumbsup:

Mike

[Solar]

What a great result. I like the colour.:thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Superb image. Need to get some of that seeing too.

[U.K.Cowboy]

Super image with great ring detail!

[bratislav]

Not literally of course ;) just reprocessing the data.

I have now painstakingly selected best luminance frames (don't laugh) manually, which allowed me to run finer deconvolution PSF. I also used beta (alpha?) version of AS!2 which also allows some new tricks like sigma clipping combine and derotation. (And it is faster)
The result is attached. The most notable improvement is how visible are now multiple cloud bands on Saturn's surface; Hexagon is also better outlined, as is Encke gap.

Bratislav

[Clayton]

Nice work Bratislav :eyepop::thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Hey missed this one, nice improvement Brat...always like to see where I can be of assistance:lol:...even though I have no idea about all those particular processes you have used :question: oh except the going through data and manually picking out the best frames bit, done that with a few DS objects to great effect :P

Mike

[el_draco]

Beautiful image !:thumbsup:

[Carmen4594]

Absolutely stunning work Bratislav!

[dutch2]

Fantastic Saturn. Well done.:thumbsup: