Kronos on the morning of 21 Dec 2005

[Dennis]

Hi

Finally, here is Saturn from earlier this morning. After having drenched my senses and filled up the notebook hard drive with the Moon, I pointed the C9.25 at old Kronos himself and grabbed 1024 frames.

Using the Quality and Difference slide bars, I stacked 559 for the following results. The colour seems a bit washed out and the Cassini Division isn’t resolved all the way round, but all in all, I’m pleased with the image given I had a miserable failure on Mars earlier in the evening.

C9.25
TeleVue x2.5 PowerMate
Philips ToUcam
1/25 sec at 10 fps.
559 from 1024 images in Registax3

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

lovely, just floating around in that inky space. awesome image

[Dennis]

Thanks Dave - your poetic words describe just how I felt around 4:00am after going all through the night!

Cheers

Dennis

[rumples riot]

Nice image Dennis. colour is a little lacking, but it is pin sharp and very little grain. Good stuff and impressive.

[iceman]

That's a great start to the season Dennis, well done!

[bird]

Dennis, every image from you seem to keep getting better and better. That's a nice Saturn!

Bird

[davidpretorius]

well done, what is that black smudge on the rings at around 2am???

great detail!!!

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

I think the smudge is an image processing artifact. On previous (failed) attempts, I recorded smudges on both sides, which seems to occur when the outer segments of the Cassini Division are "boiling" in the seeing and therefore smears into a smudge once Registax does its stuff.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Looks like stacking some frames where the CD was distorted. I get it all the time if I try to do a Saturn in average or below seeing.

[rumples riot]

Dennis I did a little colour work and some sharpening. I hope you don't mind.

[RB]

That's a very nice image Dennis.

:)

[fringe_dweller]

Nice!! :)

[iceman]

Hi Dennis.

I had a quick play around with your image in AstraImage, I hope that's ok and I hope you like the result.

Did a LR deconvolution and some adjustments to Saturation, Colour Balance and Gamma.

You should try bumping up the Saturation during your capture, as it seemed to be lacking which is why the colour isn't there in the original.

The left is the original, the right is my version.

Great image, well done.

[davidpretorius]

mate he will love it!!!!

great processing mike!

well done

[Robert_T]

Beautiful Image Dennis! :) The ring detail is fantastic.

Great re-processing too from Mike and Paul - nice colour!!

[Dennis]

Hello Team

Wow - what a difference some expert processing can do! Thanks Paul and thanks Mike, that's what I imagined Saturn should look like.

Mike - thanks for the before & after images, a brilliant demonstration of the techniques used to improve the image, and thanks for the tip on saturation too; it's a slider I have never yet dabbled with.

Cheers

Dennis

[ving]

nice image dennis. lovely and sharp even if faded.... I think in the after processing pauls is too warm and mikes is too cold. a middle ground would be better :)

[iceman]

There is Ice in Space you know, Ving :P

[Muddy Diver]

Well done Dennis and also congrats to the volunteer processors. The images are fabulous and are the types which are inspiring me right now. FAB!