Saturn 21st April

[asimov]

Reasonable seeing. It was fluctuating badly most of the time but on this AVI it steadied reasonably well to get quite a few good frames (3456).

F32 15FPS 1/19th sec exp. Full gain 103 gamma (default 100). Resized up.

I'm back to my old dull monitor so it's a hard task getting used to it again. Hopefully the colour balance is somewhat correct as I haven't bothered to calibrate yet. I've reformatted the Toshy so I'm working with everything factory reset.

The obs is pretty well fully functional now (minus a roof) but I'm using a roll off tarp temporarily until I finish. Still, it's a joy not to have to pull it down & walk it all back into the shed!

C11/DBK

[Clayton]

Very nice Saturn Asi.
Colour looks fine to me :thumbsup:

[asimov]

Thanks for the feedback Rob.

Found a moon (Dione) in the AVI so here's a repro with enhanced moon.

[John Hothersall]

Storm detail shows well for reasonable seeing and colours are excellent as usual, usually ignore the moons but enhancement certaily adds to the image.

John.

[Phoenix]

Lovely Saturn Asi, something to aspire to with the one shot DBK. Seeing not looking too bad here in Adelaide over the next few evenings - hopefully will get a little more practice in.

Cheers

[Quark]

That a real beauty Asi, colour looks fine to me and nice detail within the storm. How long before you have the 14 capturing Saturnian photons from the new obs?

Bit snowed under over Easter with a lawn bowls carnival but will try and check in to see if you post anymore stuff like this, certainly look forward to more.

Regards
Trevor

[Paul Haese]

Good stuff John. I particularly like the processing. Very similar rendering to Damian's that I received this morning. Nice work.

Seeing last night was ok but I was too stuffed to be bothered from yesterdays events.

[asimov]

Thanks guys.

Trev, the next night of good seeing will probably see the introduction of the 14". With that extra OTA length (extra lever arm action) I've had to go to considerable painstaking lengths to setup the backlash on both axes on the EQ6. Looks like I need to strip her down one last time to get it on the money.

[asimov]

Hi Paul. Us 'oldies' (me included) have come a long way with processing. I scoff at my processing from past years, but the fact is, all newbies need to go through the over processing & grain adding stage.

Thanks mate.

[desler]

I love it Asi,


I've been playing around with a new dbk41 and my c 9.25 for the last couple of weeks and have had not a great deal of success, Hopefully over the next few days, I'll post something.

I think now, that the problem is collimation, and not that I can't use the camera, so another night of mucking around and then I hope to finally get an image worth posting.

Oh the fun of it all.


Darren

[asimov]

Glad you like the image Darren. Why the 41? I guess you main focus is moon mosaics?

[Matt Wastell]

Hi John,

That is a great image, well done!

[asimov]

Thanks Matt!

Time for a resample I reckon!:P:D

[Screwdriverone]

Man,

That's a corker John!

The last one is my favourite, so crisp and detailed!

Well done.

Cheers

Chris

[asimov]

Hey there Chris...While I'm remembering (one of my lucid moments) Happy bloody birthday dude!

Thanks mate!

[Screwdriverone]

Thanks John,

Much appreciated, all I need is for the clouds to go away and I can have a go at Saturn myself, I need a bit of a planetary fix...

Cheers

Chris

[Clayton]

NICE resample Asi

[asimov]

Thanks Rob :thumbsup:

[Shiraz]

Excellent images John. Storm detail is exceptional. Regards Ray

[asimov]

G'day Ray, & thanks.