Hi guys.
Here's a couple of Saturn and Jupiter images I took on Saturday night (30/01/2005) and Monday night (01/02/2005).
I think I had the saturation a bit low for the Saturday night, but otherwise they turned out ok. Focus looks a bit sharper, probably thanks to the moonlite.
Seeing was pretty good on Saturday, a bit worse on Monday.
I don't know, maybe i'm reaching the limit of what I can produce with a non-tracking dob. I've seen others take their
first avi's of Saturn (like Gordon) with a tracking mount and produce better results than me, when i've been doing it for a couple of months..
My results are slowly improving, but unless I get perfect seeing I can't see my planetary images getting much better than they currently are. I'm guessing that there must be a slight blurring effect due to the speed the planet drifts through the FOV.
For the jupiter images, the right-hand side images and the large one have Europa just off the right-hand-side of the disc.
Comments and suggestions welcome, if you can suggest something i'm doing wrong or should do differently, either in capture or processing, in order to get the nice sharp images that others are getting, that'd be great.
(the number next to the planet is the number of frames stacked)
Saturn 29/01/2005
Saturn 01/02/2005
Jupiter 01/02/2005
Thanks for looking.