Saturn from 11Dec05

[LT_Ng]

Hi All,

Had not taken any image for nearly a month. Attached was my latest one taken on Dec 11th with my 12.5" F5 Newtonian. Transparency was not good so I had to slide the gain upto 85% position approximately.

Seeing was just fair, and so the Encke gap could not be captured.

Final image was 1800 frames stacked from 3 avis. Cropped and 80% resigned in PS. Hope you enjoy this image .

Clear skies,

LT

[Orion]

Excellent!...What did you capture it with? Imaging camera?

[iceman]

Beautiful image William! The globe colour is very inviting and you've captured the crepe ring and the bands right up to the south pole.

Brilliant stuff.

[Robert_T]

what a cracker :jump:


have to be one of the best Saturn images I've seen.

well Done LT!

[davidpretorius]

well if i have to, i will try very hard to enjoy it!!!


mate, i have to concur, best of the best so far this saturn season!!!

congrats

[[1ponders]]

:gday: William.

Up to your usual fantastic result again. You must be using a magic wand to get those result. Especially when you condsider the atmospheric conditions you shoot through.

Great shot mate. :thumbsup:





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[ving]

hi william :hi:

thats one ripper of an image... cant wait to see one during "good seeing" :)

[RB]

Excellent William,

Nice colour which brings out the detail on the planet.
Always a pleasure to see your work.

:)

[atalas]

Great work LT !

[astroboy]

You are really setting the standard in Planet imaging around here .
Any chance of lowering it for the rest of us;)
Man have I got a long way to go:sad:
Great image

[rumples riot]

Lovely image LT. I disagree about not being able to see the encke divison. It is vaguely there. So not as bad as you think. Keep them coming.

[bird]

LT, thanks for posting that image, it's very nice!

Bird

[Striker]

Very nice Saturn image William...

I still dont understand why it cant be imaged at higher rez...

So saying this if you wanted to print an A4 size image of a planet you can't do it....all images would have to be printed out on a very small scale due to the Rez.

[davidpretorius]

pushing that much data down the cable is a problem!

i ican only image at 5frames a second in raw mode.

Gary Beal had a camera that can do video at 1024 x 768 i think

[Striker]

Yes I can understand that but with USB2 and firewire that has been around for years now 50mb a second should be ample.

I would love to see a huge image of a planet on a large scale.

Sorry to bring this up on your thread william..like I said you have a great image...a lot better then I could ever do.

[asimov]

And a lot better than I could do also!!

What a splendid image William. Congrats!

[bird]

The larger the image, the dimmer the image. You need a larger scope to gather more light, or a higher sensitivity camera.

Bird

[asimov]

Please tell us your using a CCD webcam so that we mere mortals have a chance!!?

[acropolite]

Superb image William..:D

[LT_Ng]

Thanks for the kind words and inputs from all of you, and sorry for my late response as I was very exhaused with career duties in the past 2 weeks.

This Saturn image was taken with ToUcam, and it is a stack of 1800 frames from 3 avi clips. Except the resolution, this is my best processed one upto now.

Paul, I don't think I had captured the Encke's gap. What you saw in the A ring is the so-called Encke minima. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Good seeing,

LT

[rumples riot]

I think your right LT, Could be the A ring. Thanks for the Heads up. Still very good work.