Saturn 10.4.11 - vgood seeing

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F34.2 with 5xPowermate, PGRFlea3, Astrodon filters.

1207hrs
1333hrs UT.

After previous night Tom said seeing was good in Bris although I did not get it so was ready this time and stars were twinkly but not too bad. By 10pm seeing was 8/10 but fell away to 7/10 quickly after so got one good set with the storm head. Relatively new to planetary imaging my colour processing is a bit strong so tried to get a more natural colour this time and not too smooth. Tests showed a little gamma-1200 was best for detail in red channel.

Thanks, John.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Brilliant John, nicely handled C ring processing.
Very tidy.

[von Tom (Tom)]

Really good John! The detail in the rings is apparent with a strong Encke Division and the head of the storm looks great. Thanks for posting these.

Tom

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Great stuff John! Visually stunning!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Beautiful work John. Is it my imagination or is that the Encke Gap showing

[Quark (Trevor)]

Excellent work John, lovely depth of detail especially in the first image which was obviously the best of the seeing.

Very well done.
Regards
Trevor

[firstlight (Tony)]

Good work John, very impressive. I wish I had half the resolution and light gathering you have. Great touch with the processing as well. I didn't have the energy to image on Sunday night, and there were some cloud about when I checked a couple of times anyway. Seems the conditions at the Bay and over near Archerfield alternate.

[Kal (Andrew)]

Very nice John, that first pic is a ripper

[Paul Haese]

Nice images John. The image with the storm head is superb. Enke showing with sharp detail on the disk. Well done.

[John Hothersall]

Thanks everyone, looks like I'll get another chance tonight, hopefully good seeing will still be around? Still waiting for 10/10 seeing, think I may be waiting a long time?

John.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Beautiful smooth images John, with amazing fine detail. regards Ray

[Lester]

Wonderful image John, thanks for the view.

[multiweb (Marc)]

So sharp. Not unlike those close up Jupiter shots. First time I actually see so much details on the planet surface. Really cool.

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow!
You inspire me!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Wow!
You inspire me!

I agree, photographing the same object over and over is certainly a little foreign for me ....buuuut I think I am starting to see the attraction now

Mike