Saturn From 2005

[Hitchhiker]

Here are some images of Saturn taken last year. I have been experimenting with different settings so some are not so great but I have been learning a lot with every image.

Early on I was experimenting with a lower gain setting but, because my exposure setting was too short, all I got was noisy, underexposed images!

In later images I have used a longer exposure time and got a better result - though at a quarter of a second the seeing would have to be very good to get great results.

Comments are welcome.

[asimov]

Nice images from 2005 there Adam. Well done.

[rumples riot]

Saturn is a very hard target, I can tell you that. I have found that of all the planets that I image it most often looks great in the eyepiece but seldom gives great photographic results. Keep trying, you are very near to a breakthrough. Try not to overprocess your images.

Keep em coming.

[xrekcor]

Hey Adam, your starting to get some great results there. What setting were you using?
It looks to me like you have the offset a lil high with the white point under the
histogram set a lil low. I think this is why your Saturn disc take on a squared look.
From memory I usually leave the white point set all the way to the right and offset
around the 40-45% mark. Dont be too surprised if it looks a lil soft on screen, just
apply the medium edge filter, and your can sharpen it up in in post processing.

regards,CS

[davidpretorius]

yes, it is a real hard one to get right, i am in the same hair pulling stage at the moment.

but if we keep at it, we will get that magical night when it all works!!!