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Saturn March 10th
Hi all,
Had a very nice drop of rain on the morning of March 10th. It was very cloudy for most of the day but cleared up by 8pm. Often out here in the outback, after rain the seeing can be stunning, so set up to image Saturn. Started at 10:05 pm CSST.
Although it was clear the relative humidity was much higher than normal, we are supposed to get rain over the next two or three days. Strewth this must be what its like over on the coast. The seeing was only fair about 6 to 7 / 10.
Tried experimenting with my capture setup. These images are all RGB's, each channel was a capture of 1,800 frames at 30 fps, Gain was set at 870 for R & G channels and 1,023 for the B channel. This gave a histogram of 190 for each channel.
I used Virtual Dub to convert my avi files to bmp's then used Birds most excellent ppmcentre to centre, crop and rate the bmp's. Used Registax V5 to stack my bmp's. Used Astra Image Pro 3 to merge my RGB's.
Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor
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