Saturn 23rd & 24th March 2011

[asimov]

G'day all. Not bad seeing the last couple of nights! We're on a roll here in Bundy lol.

C11/DBK

[desler]

Beautiful John, Love your work, you really have that DBK humming along!

Darren

[iceman]

Nice work John, really beautiful colours, and very smooth.

[jjjnettie]

Wow!

[Shiraz]

Hi John, agree with JJ - Wow!
you really nailed it this time. regards Ray

[Frewi808]

Congrats John..
Now give me some of your seeing !!!!
Freddy

[Garyh]

Beautiful result John! First one has really nice contrast and colors!
:thumbsup:

[asimov]

Hey guys (and gal) thanks for your comments!

Naturally we are 100% clouded out now - Heaven forbid I photograph Saturn 3 nights running!;)

Anyway, these 2 will keep me quiet for a little while I guess:lol:

[michaellxv]

Don't go quiet on us. Very much enjoy looking at your work.

[asimov]

Well in that case - Here's another one captured just before the first one posted, Michael. Processed differently because of the intermittent & variable seeing. Upped the saturation on this one slightly too.

[John Hothersall]

Those are great especially the second with a heap of dust in the right ring. Was out on those dates myself and got a continuous spell of avg seeing, on 24th I could not find focus it was so mediocre.

I think you picked up the plume in the South which is wonderful? Very fine detail in the main dust track.

John.

[Quark]

Superb images Asi, my favorite is the 2nd image in your original post, an all round most excellent result.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov]

Thanks John. I need more aperture to gain any more out of my imaging. That is in the pipeline.

Thanks Trevor. My favorite too. It was the only AVI worth looking at for decent seeing actually. I've just rerun that one in fact. Tell me what you think, as it's a different take than my normal processing.

[michaellxv]

The original looks a bit sharper to me but I like the colours more on this one.

[EddieDog]

Absolutely brilliant!
Eddie

[asimov]

I tend to agree. Now If I could just combine those two..

[asimov]

And thanks Eddie!

[Skip]

Hi. I am hoping that you might be able to assist me in a project that I am leading for students at my school. We are investigating the "opposition effect" of Saturn. We are keen to gather as many images and measurements of Saturn for about a month either side and including opposition on 4 April 2011. We wish to see if the "opposition effect" (or cat's eye effect) is detectable this year. Images would be wonderful (with the time they were taken). We would like to calculate the intensity of light from the rings compared to the intensity of light from the planetary disk. We would like to plot the ratio of these over time. Could anyone help us with photometric data, please? Regards Ian (Skip)

[asimov]

Hi Skip. Just be mindful that some planet imagers (including me on occasion) are prone to altering ring brightness (without altering globe brightness) or vice versa as we see fit. I haven't felt the need to do that on this occasion as indeed, the rings are becoming brighter as we near opposition.

I'd be happy to contribute to your study, although it's a pretty rare occasion that I image these days, due to my weather in Bundaberg QLD this time of year.

PM me for further details if you like.

[Clayton]

Very Very Nice John :thumbsup::thumbsup:
IMHO Michael hit the nail on the head with his comment "The original looks a bit sharper to me but I like the colours more on this one."
I hope you get the opportunity for some more soon.

[asimov]

Thanks Rob.

I've just spent a few hours trying to combine the sharpest of the set with the colour of that other one.

Hope you like.