a Map processed SATURN from Dec 20th

[Robert_T]

Hi All, have continued to process avis from Wed morning. Amazingly constant results with no standouts. I did a ppm centre on one batch and have run it with 3 x MAP point alignment in Registax 4 to produce that here.

Not sure if it was worth the trouble:shrug:

cheers,

[matt]

Nice work Rob

Definitely as good as the other image you posted from the same night.

Although this one looks a little brighter on my screen, and has a kind of whiteish sheen over it?

Might be my screen?

[iceman]

Beautiful image, Rob! A little peachy in colour, but great detail and smoothness.

[StargazerX1]

Nice work Robert!

Very good capture of the Crepe ring (C). Did you use a standard gamma of 1.0?

I also find your processing method interesting. Usually significantly different processing of the RGB channels leads to spurious color. But I have found LR decon on the different color channels sometimes requires a different radius. When MaxEnt works it seems better, but more often than not it does not converge (at least with MaximDL which will allow deconvolution on color images).

Glenn Jolly
Gilbert, AZ USA

[Robert_T]

tried to de-peach the colour a little...;)

[Robert_T]

Hi Glenn, I set gamma at either 1.1 or 1.2. Usually I do the same processing technique for each colour channel for the reason you mention, or at most change the radius slightly. In this case the blue channel was a Lot fuzzier than red and green so I just gave the latter two a very mild unsharp mask while applying LR to sharpen up the blue channel.

cheers,

[bird]

Nice image Rob!

Bird

[sheeny]

Very nice Rob!

Al.

[John K]

Awesome image Robert!

[Ric]

Very nice image Rob, I think the colours have come out looking very natural.

great stuff

[Dennis]

Hi Robert

That is a beautiful image of Saturn in spite of the low altitude and the less than optimal seeing in Brisbane at the moment. With such quality images as this, right now, it looks like there is only room for one C9.25 in Brissie so I’ll be happy to keep my ‘scope inside, have a morning lie in and appreciate Saturn through your wonderful images!

Cheers

Dennis

[matt]

Er... no Dennis.

We'd all appreciate it if you kept crankin' out your great images too;)

[davidpretorius]

love it rob, I am staring to get that itch, just waiting for the clouds to disappear that followed all the smoke that has been haning around.

we actually had ash falling in the middle of the city during the week.

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggh


thanks all you guys for keeping me up to date on how nice saturn is!

[Dennis]

Thanks Matt – your confidence in me in heartwarming!

Wishing you and your loved ones a Merry Xmas and Peaceful & Prosperous New Year.

Dennis

[h0ughy]

Geez you Qlders really do nice work!!! thats wonderful!!

[matt]

The same to you, Dennis.

All the very best

[Robert_T]

Thanks for the kind comments guys!

And Dennis, sorry your not off the hook that easily.:D Looking forward to some more of your razor sharp saturns from days of yor..

cheers,