Saturn 18th Feb

[rogerg]

G'day all,

I don't typically enter in to planetary imaging much, I tend not to have much success with it so stick to the deep sky. However, tonight I thought I'd better get a shot of Saturn for the year. In fact, it's one of the first I've tried of Saturn with my QuickCam that I bought for Mars in 2003.

I'm really happy with it considering my previous attempts. It wouldv'e been nice to put the 2x on and see what I got, but viewing suddenly deteriorated to the point that I am now in the observatory with the roof closed and a strong wind gusting around outside (typical easterly blowing through for a hot day tomorrow).

I was trying a different tact tonight, recording using K3CCDTools to get uncompressed videos. Means I now have 8 gig used by 6 video's, but perhaps it helped to get that bit more quality. Not all videos processed yet, at about 2000 frames each my computer's taking a while over it, but I don't expect much different results to what I have here:

http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom/esh_rog_item.jsp?Item=259

Roger.

[davidpretorius]

great effort, a little extra image scale is always what we want more of. Damn conditions, never let us have 10,000 x

[Robert_T]

Nice Roger... sure you're not tempted to come further to the planetary side away from that deep sky stuff?;)

If you're using Regstax yu might want to try an RGBALign "estimate" is the wavelets window. Looks like the red and bluw in this one are a bit misaligned.

cheers

[rogerg]

Thanks for that Robert - I'll give it a shot.

Roger.