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Nice comparison and analysis Ray. Thanks for posting. I know when I do my processing (especially sharpening) of Saturn I'm aware of trying to avoid introducing artefacts, especially in the rings as too much sharpening can add false rings etc. the images and posts on this forum have encouraged me to get the most I can from my images, particularly because they show detail that I never otherwise would have looked for. Images like yours help me judge what is really there and what is not.
Imaging and presenting Saturn can be a little subjective as sometimes ring fidelity/sharpness/colour is sacrificed for cloud feature details and vice versa. It depends upon what the imager is trying to depict or highlight. When I first started with Saturn I was mainly concerned with capturing the storm on the disc, so the rings were secondary to what I thought was of interest. I traded disc contrast for the C ring so that is wasn't visible, for example. At the moment I'm trying for better definition in the rings as the only cloud detail I can pick up on with my equipment is the hexagon (again, without others posting here probably wouldn't've have looked for it).
Cheers,
Tom
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