Saturn this morning - 10th October
Hi all
Here's my second Saturn for the season, taken this morning at 04:41am. Saturn was at 18° altitude, but the sky was lightening fast and I couldn't wait until it got any higher.
Captured with the 2x barlow and DMK21AF04, seeing was horrible and visually no detail could be seen through a 5mm eyepiece (not even the CD).
I captured for 1 minute on each colour channel @ 15fps and 1/15s exposure. I couldn't go for 30fps because there wasn't enough light coming in and the image would've been too dim. Even at 1/15s exposure, gain was at 85%.
180 frames were stacked from each channel. Processed in registax, AstraImage and Photoshop.
As a comparison, the second image shows just the red channel, captured using the 3x barlow and shows the increased image scale, however the seeing simply did not support any more focal length and the green and blue channel (especially) were horrible.
Thanks for looking.
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