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Old 25-07-2016, 03:24 AM
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Mars and Saturn 17 Jul 2016

Hi all,

Finally processed this batch of images from last weekend. Had three nights of clear skies however seeing in North Canberra was far from good making Mars particularly challenging. Last Sunday it improved dramatically in time for Saturn's maximum elevation. Altaz mount on my scope prevented the use of long Barlows (as I have microfocuser assembly in the imaging train) so I settled for f/26 by combining TeleVue 2x and William Optics 1.6x lenses.

Been playing with various acquisition and processing techniques (particularly white/colour balancing) as I am new to this ASI cam. Overall lots of data massaging post stack including WinJUPOS derotation and AstraImage deconvolution, used AS!2 drizzle stack option on Saturn to improve the image scale.

Saturn animation links:
http://astrob.in/full/256543/0/
http://astrob.in/full/256542/0/

Full res composite:
http://astrob.in/full/256634/0/

Thanks for looking,
Seb
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