First Saturn- Advice and Re-processes welcome

[big_dav_2001]

Hey all..

Its been a while since I've posted anything on the forum, but i have been watching, reading and learning quite a lot.

So, here's my first attempt at Saturn, I'm pretty pleased with the result, but any advice and re-processes are more than welcome (encouraged, actually... i'd like to see what someone more skilled can do with the data i've gathered)

Used 2 Videos of approx 30s each, taken through my 12" GSO Dob using an Orion StarShoot CCD imager producing a total of 1228 usable frames. Stacked in Registax, played around with wavelets a little bit, but i wasnt too sure what i was doing :shrug:...

First attachment is the stacked bitmap image before i started messing around with wavelets, the second is my attempt at processing.

Thanks in advance for any advice :thumbsup:

Davin

[jjjnettie]

For a first time you've done well.
Keep working on your focus. What time of night did you do your imaging? Saturn is at his best after midnight.

[big_dav_2001]

Thanks JJJ...:)

Yeah, focus has been a bit of a pain, im still using a single speed focuser, which has been fine for visual, but now i starting to take a few shots, its getting a bit tricky. I'm going to upgrade it sometime very soon.

Images were taken about 2am on Friday night, there was some thin, high cloud around at the time, but there didnt appear to be any at the time i took the videos. To be honest, it wasnt seriously planned or anything, i was just looking at saturn, and wondered if i could get a vid... then watched the vid and wondered if i could get a pic out of it.... it was more of a 'lets see if i can, and how far i can take it' kinda thing, which i think turned out pretty well...

[jjjnettie]

ha ha, and so you stood at the top of the slippery slope.....

[big_dav_2001]

hahahaha don't worry, there's a big pile of sobbing amateur astrophotographers at the bottom of that slope to break my fall...hehehehe