Saturn Jan 8 (Canberra)

[matt]

Clear but unsteady skies this morning.

This is a quick run through Registax 3, with some basic adjustments in wavelets and at the final screen stage.

Captured in K3CCDTools with ToUcam Pro II around 3.30am

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice image, Matt. The banding is nice. Glad you got clear skies. Nothing but cloud at my house.

[davidpretorius]

i concur with Mike, you got your bands and colours nice..............cmon great seeing, canberra (not murrumbateman) is overdue!!

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

nice try Matt.

I had a night off last night, weather predictions weren't good and we have just shifted houses again for a week or so.

This morning there's lots of smoke around?!? Hope nothing serious...

Bird

[matt]

Thanks guys.

I really struggled with this image, or to be precise, its processing.

I've come to the realisation that as far as wavelets go you need to exercise a fair amount of restraint.

As much as I wanted to process the living daylights out of the image to try and make it sharper due to the poor seeing, I have also realised a softer but natural appearance is more appealing.

I've also looked at enough of my older images to see that on many occasions I overprocessed to try and counter the effects of poor seeing. This often meant introducing processing artifacts rather than genuine detail.

My new mantra is "process to the conditions".

But gee.... it's tough not to push those wavelet sliders!!!!

[davidpretorius]

naaargh, slide em all the way up!!!

[Harb]

Gee nice one matt,
I was up as well, but didn't come close to your image, well done , it was a tough night , seeing was lousy where I am.

[matt]

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

naaargh, slide em all the way up!!!

I will, Davo... believe me I will.

When I get the sort of data that you capture and master cooling and all the other tigers that you've tamed.

I'm also still a long way from having the processing skills of you and other guys like Mike.

You're a funny bloke