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Originally Posted by iceman
Thanks for your comments, all.
I've added a reprocessed version and got rid of the blue  Hope it's more pleasing.
No cooldown, just put the 12" on and started. There was a 3° difference in temp between mirror and ambient which affected the local seeing.
It's getting harder to image just after sunset now, no time to cool the scope and it's right in the middle of happy hour. |
Mike, the change in colour balance is great and adds so much to the overall look of the image.
Just for a bit of perspective, I have been going back through my old copies of Sky & Space. In June / July 2000 page 58 there is a Saturn image by Shigemi Kanbara of Japan taken with a 16" LX 200 and in the April / May issue page 59, a Saturn image by Steve Massey taken with the 60 cm Scope at Siding Spring Observatory.
These were no doubt excellent examples of the state of amateur astro photography at that time, however there is absolutely no comparison between either of them and either of the two versions of the image you have posted here.
It is really such a comment on how far amateur equipment, imaging and processing ability has come that we now look at stunningly detailed images taken by amateurs and comment on the colour balance because we are getting use to the level of detail that is in them.
What do you think?
Cheers
Trevor