[cybereye (Mario)]

Hello!!

After the success I had imaging Saturn with the QHY5 I decided to give it another try. So last Wednesday night I set up the scope and started imaging Saturn again. But then I thought, wouldn't it be nice if I could get some colour into the image. And then it struck me - I had a set of Wratten filters tucked away in my Felix type bag of tricks.

Now before I continue with my tale, I should point out that I know this is not how you do LRGB imaging. I know that there are specific filters needed and that you can't use Wratten filters. I know, I know, I know.

But I did it anyway!!

So on with the story. I took one image without any filters - this I would use as the luminosity. Then using a 23A and an 80A for the Red and Blue channels I took two other AVIs. I then processed each of these in Registax5 and eneded up with 3 bitmaps that were stacks of 250 frames each.

"What about the Green channel?" I hear you ask. I'd read somewhere that you could synthesis this by averaging your blue and red channels. So this is what I did!! I then took all files into PS, bumbled my way through and somehow ended up with a "dirty" coloured image of Saturn which I present at the end of this message.

And once again - I know this isn't how you do LRGB imaging. But it was fun doing and I learnt quite a bit in the process.

Cheers,
Mario