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Originally Posted by AlexN
Pwoah! Who's got aperture now! 
Awesome news about the new scope (that Im sure you've mentioned earlier, however I've missed it till now!)
Fantastic shot, I think this image shows that it wasnt you causing problems in your earlier imaging attempts, but the affects of a small scope at high powers.. You've taken yourself a ripper Saturn image Chris, And Im sure there is many more to come! Congrats on the image, and the new toy!
Alex. |
Thanks Alex,
Yes, I think every IIS'er wants at LEAST 12 inches to play with,
, I cant believe just how much of a difference it makes, I DO notice the coma though, being F5 compared to my F7.7 blurtube, which in itself is still proving itself last night for things like globulars and nebulae, dont think I will chuck it out just yet. Most of the coma is probably caused by the cheapo eyepieces I have too. May have to shoot up to Linden tonight and BORROW a Televue Ethos to compare
It sure helped a lot when I had a head start by following your "adventures" with the 8 inch dob and how to line up a planet for an avi pass, so thanks for all that info, it made a lot of difference and saved me a LOT of time
I must admit I was surprised myself when I started processing and things just kept getting better as I went, and I tweaked the gamma and the RGB curves with images of Trevor and Mike's in my head so I could sort of match what I thought the "real" colours are. After some tricks I learned here, I sat back and thought....no way, my webcam cant take shots like THAT!
So all in all, its been a bit of a team effort, a little bit from Column A (me and the scope) and a LOT from Column B (IIS members and all their experience).
I have been loving this High pressure system of the last week, clear nights with little or no jet stream at all and I have had R2 out the back almost every night.
I am a bit worried to do another run on Saturn, I feel I might have peaked too early?
Thanks again for the comments, and to everyone for all the reference materials.
Cheers
Chris