Saturn from Lostock, my best so far!

[bird]

Seeing at Lostock on Friday night was unbelievably good, I had the best views and images of Saturn so far this year, possibly the best ever.

Here's one processed run - normally I have to combine data from several runs to get this sort of result, but not this time!

Scope Details: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html
Capture Details: 3 minutes each of R,G,B @ 25 fps

Image has been resampled to 150% normal size before processing

cheers, Bird

[iceman]

Wow, awesome Anthony.. I knew I was going to regret not imaging again that night :)

I'm yet to process my Thursday data but I hope it turns out to be my best as well.

Very nice image!

[ving]

wow! nice saturnage!!! :D
thanks anthony :)

[matt]

Oh yeah!

Very good, Anthony.

What I'd do for some knock-out seeing!!:lol:

Great processing job, too.

[[1ponders]]

Nicely done bird. :clap: Definately deserving a self-pat on the back. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Hi Anthony

That is a wonderful image of Saturn - easily the best I have seen this season. Well done, it looks stunning.

Cheers

Dennis

[mojo]

That's got to be one of the best Saturn shots I've ever seen! You guys weren't kidding about the clear skies at Lostock. That's just brilliant.

[gaa_ian]

Excellent Saturn Anthony, worth the sleep deprivation :zzz2:
I now know just how much effort you put in to get these shots :thumbsup:

[bird]

Here's an alternative, close to real size, slightly different contrast/brightness.

I'm doing this on my crappy dell laptop with the nonlinear brightness (tm) lcd screen...

Bird

[sheeny]

Wow!:eyepop: That's just awesome, Bird!

Al.

[Dennis]

I've just returned for my 2nd look - and it looks even better. I am reminded of a Cassini Spacecraft image - your processing makes the planet look so natural it’s hard to believe it is an earthbound image.

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

I like the second shot even better! I can even see the edge of Saturn through the Crepe Ring :eyepop:



Is that a hint of an F ring I can see there :jawdrop:

[bird]

Nope, just a processing artifact I think... btw there is a moon visible, although you probably won't find it unless you load the image into photoshop and wind the levels up.

I'll identify and label it later, and upload an image.

Bird

[[1ponders]]

That's a shame. ;)

[xstream]

:eyepop: Unbelievable Anthony! :thumbsup:

[davidpretorius]

you bloody beauty, that is fantastic!!!

congrats bird, i am really wrapped you nailed it.

This compares with the best in the world!!!

Who needs cebu city anyway???

Bird is a legend....:a clap and a hippity hoppity hooray:

[netwolf]

:eyepop: :eyepop: :eyepop: :thumbsup: speechless

[33South]

There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can take good Saturn images, and those who cant.

You are definitely one who can.

:thumbsup:

[iceman]

WOW, this looks even better on my work LCD screen, instead of the laptop screen. Incredible Anthony, well done. I'm processing my Thursday night Saturn's now.. the red channel looks good at least :)

Have you finished processing the Jupiter data? Anything worthwhile there?

[Ric]

Fantastic image Bird, great colours and banding on the planet, the rings are amazing.

Great work

[bird]

umm, I'm still processing saturn stuff... I had a quick look at the Jupiter data and it's nowhere near as good as saturn, but I'll process it , maybe later today.

cheers, Bird

[davidpretorius]

no you won't young man, or I'll report you to your boss!!

whats that?....he is his own boss.......WELLLL, process away my friend!!!!

[RB]

Incredible shot Anthony !!!

One of the best I've seen.

[jjjnettie]

:bowdown:
:thanks:

[ballaratdragons]

An extremely excellent pic Bird. Well done mate. You have balanced the colours beautifully and it is also a pleasing image to look at. Makes Saturn look 'peaceful'.

Congrats on a great image.

[bird]

Last one for this session... combined 3 separate runs. Not a lot of difference, and hard to work with on my laptop, but I think this is a little better...

cheers, bird

[iceman]

Very nice, very smooth.

When you combine data from different runs, do you stack the stacks, or do you take all 150000 frames of each channel and run them through registax to get a single image?

[bird]

I've tried both ways Mike, and it seems better to take the finished (monochrome) images and combine them to get "final" monochrome images, then combine these to get a colour image.

cheers, Bird