Saturn storm in STrZ 3rd June 2009

[Quark]

Hi all,

Imaged the storm in the STrZ tonight, captured 4 sets of R, G and B avi's each avi was 900 frames. Stacked the best 350 from each avi.

To capture this feature I had to be imaging at 6:50 pm CST, this was relatively close to sunset and the ambient temp drops very quickly early in the night. I struggled to maintain my primary mirror within the .5 of a degree C tolerance that my optical system seems to require for optimum performance, depending on the seeing.

Tonight the rings were open just under 4 degrees, relative to the Earth.

The seeing was quite reasonable at about 6/10 and improved through the night. I have attached the best RGB image and an animation of the four. The animation represents the movement of the storm over a 50 minute period.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[kinetic]

Sensational stuff Trevor!

The high is pretty stable here too Trev, hope it stays for a while.

Steve

[iceman]

That's a bright storm, Trevor. Well captured.

You could adjust the background levels a bit - it's quite reddish.

[Lester]

Good on ya Trevor, another great capture of Saturn with storm.

You make it look so easy; but I know it isn't.

[Quark]

Thanks Lester, but I was a bit slack with the processing of these images.



Thanks Mike, could you or another moderator correct the date in the title for me please?

Mike, I used a different and quicker processing scheme this time, I am reprocessing the image that I posted right now, it will take a lot longer but the result will be better.



Thanks Steve,
Wrong date, I suppose I should have hastened more slowly.
This high pressure system does look great, should be pretty stable for a while, I hope.

[Quark]

Hi all,
Last night to get my processing over quicker I made a few to many short cuts. Attached is the same image but processed with the much longer regime that I normally use. The difference is considerable.

Regards
Trevor

[lacad01]

Always enjoy your Saturn shots. The animation shows it up really clearly :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Nicely captured again, Trevor. Well done!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Another stunning Saturn image Trevor nice work cheers :thumbsup: