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Old 24-10-2006, 01:10 PM
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Exclamation My best Saturn image so far!

Hi all

Got about 10 minutes of good seeing this morning, after Saturn rose above 24°. Luckily I was out there, ready to capture, with no jetstream over coastal NSW!

It seems I may have captured some storms/spots as seen on the red channel (and highly processed cutout on the right).. It may be artifacts but who knows I'll check some other avi's and see if it appears on those too.

Captured for about 1:20 for each colour channel, with the 10" dob, 5x powermate and DMK21AF04 @ 15fps. Gain was at maximum (100%). Stacked 300 frames in each channel for the final result.

Wavelets processed in registax, followed by mild ME deconvolution in AstraImage, and final curves and levels adjustment and noise reduction in Photoshop.

Really happy with this image, it's by far my best Saturn image, especially given the low altitude and brightening sky (30 mins before sunrise).

Thanks for looking, comments welcome.
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