Saturn - first with ToUcam

[mikeash]

Hello everybody

I finally finished my eq platform and have started with the ToUcam. Its much easier than the afocal handicam method I was using before.

This image taken 17 Feb, GSO 10 inch / generic Chinese 2 x barlow. 440/700 frames captured with qastrocam @ 10 fps. Registax4 . Deconvolution (circular using Image analyser) and a little unsharp mask. Seeing about 4 - 5/10 and good transparency. The image was resampled (drizzle) 2x in Registax to get the image scale.

Thanks for looking

Mike

[merlin8r]

Awesome work! Gotta be happy with that.

Clear skies,
Shane

[ballaratdragons]

WOW! Look at that Cassini Division!!!!

Toucams Rock!

[davidpretorius]

wow, i have to revamp my seeing, that is one fine image for 440 frames in 4-5/10 seeing.

top stuff,

interested in your image analyser for deconvolution, is this software?

[RB]

Wow, that's terrific Mike!

[Chrissyo]

That's a nice Saturn!:thumbsup: Lots of nice banding on the planet itself:)

[jjjnettie]

Top shot Mike.

[iceman]

Excellent image, well done for the tracking platform. It makes a huge difference!

[mikeash]

Thanks everybody for your comments,

David the Image Analyzer is freeware software http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/ It has a range of handy tools for image processing. I keep coming back to the circular devonvolution since I seem to get good results with this. It has a guess option , i usually use about 2 iterations of 1/2 the pixel radius suggested from the guess

Mike

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike, i will have a look at the software