[Dennis]

Hello

I woke up at 2:30am to continue imaging the Moon, hoping that the great seeing of the last few days would continue. Unfortunately the image on the Notebook display was noticeably worse that yesterday morning, so I drove the ‘scope to Saturn which seemed to be less affected.

As per Mike’s suggestion, I maxed out the “saturation” slider hoping for some richer colours. Although slightly improved on my previous efforts, it still a little washed out compared to Rumples richer colours and Mike's additional processing. This time, the Cassini Division “horns” are less pronounced.

Is there a recommended capture limit for Saturn, so I'm not flaunting the laws of planetary rotation? I understand that Jupiter avi's should be restricted to 90 secs to limit the effects of planetary rotation.

Equipment details:
Celestron C9.25
TeleVue x2.5 PowerMate
Philips ToUcam
Takahashi EM200 mount
JMI NGFS motofocus

Imaging details:
Acquired with K3CCDTools
1/25 sec
10fps
Stacked withRegistax3
339 frames from 2100 acquired.

24th December 2005, 03:16 am, AEST.

Cheers

Dennis