Saturn 14th Dec.

[asimov (John)]

Darn seeing conditions did it to me again...was a rock-steady 10/10 when I pressed the capture button, 6 secs later it turned to 4-5/10

Not to worry!

6" refractor/toUcam.

[davidpretorius]

another good one.

cant wait for good seeing for big blue!

[asimov (John)]

Cheers.

'ol blue' mount is still sitting in the back yard in exploded view waiting for that DEC drive...since 'capturing' the flu, ain't done a thing to it..

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice shot there mate, your images of saturn are getting better and better.
The colour is better too.
Have you stacked more frames or the same amount as other images?

[asimov (John)]

Hi Andrew.

Because I can't leave my EQ5 out there as a permanent fixture, everytime I setup it's a slightly different polar alignment...pretty hit & miss! ( I use a compass & set 5 deg east of magnetic south) At the focal length I'm shooting at now this really is the telling factor how many frames I can get in one hit. (I'm getting better & can get 4 mins of continuous AVI if I want)

Despite this, I'm having better luck in registax if I keep the AVIs about 800 frames long on Saturn in particular.

RE: the better saturn colours, I agree! I spend a hell of a long time tweaking the colour balance on the toucam than anything else! I don't do the 'check auto balance for 20 secs then uncheck' anymore. I also don't use the fringe killer filter anymore either.

Thanks..

Top Shot John, especially for the conditions

regards,CS

[Robert_T]

hi Asi, plenty of detail in this one including the faint inner ring. You're getting a very nice natural look while still revealing detail ...

interesting to hear you've ditched the fringe killer for these too - any other filtering?

cheers,

[asimov (John)]

Hi Robert.

No filtering what so ever no.

Thanks Rob & Robert.