Saturn from 11Dec05

LT_Ng · #1 14-12-2005, 02:26 AM

Hi All,

Had not taken any image for nearly a month. Attached was my latest one taken on Dec 11th with my 12.5" F5 Newtonian. Transparency was not good so I had to slide the gain upto 85% position approximately.

Seeing was just fair, and so the Encke gap could not be captured.

Final image was 1800 frames stacked from 3 avis. Cropped and 80% resigned in PS. Hope you enjoy this image .

Clear skies,

LT

Orion · #2 14-12-2005, 04:46 AM

Excellent!...What did you capture it with? Imaging camera?

iceman (Mike) · #3 14-12-2005, 05:53 AM

Beautiful image William! The globe colour is very inviting and you've captured the crepe ring and the bands right up to the south pole.

Brilliant stuff.

Robert_T · #4 14-12-2005, 07:08 AM

what a cracker

have to be one of the best Saturn images I've seen.

well Done LT!

davidpretorius · #5 14-12-2005, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LT_Ng

Hope you enjoy this image .

well if i have to, i will try very hard to enjoy it!!!

mate, i have to concur, best of the best so far this saturn season!!!

congrats

[1ponders] (Paul) · #6 14-12-2005, 09:19 AM

William.

Up to your usual fantastic result again. You must be using a magic wand to get those result. Especially when you condsider the atmospheric conditions you shoot through.

Great shot mate.

Sya says "Say

to Barbara for me"

ving (David) · #7 14-12-2005, 10:03 AM

hi william

thats one ripper of an image... cant wait to see one during "good seeing"

RB (Andrew) · #8 14-12-2005, 10:23 AM

Excellent William,

Nice colour which brings out the detail on the planet.
Always a pleasure to see your work.

atalas · #9 14-12-2005, 12:22 PM

Great work LT !

astroboy · #10 14-12-2005, 12:45 PM

You are really setting the standard in Planet imaging around here .
Any chance of lowering it for the rest of us

Man have I got a long way to go

Great image

rumples riot · #11 14-12-2005, 12:49 PM

Lovely image LT. I disagree about not being able to see the encke divison. It is vaguely there. So not as bad as you think. Keep them coming.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #12 14-12-2005, 07:48 PM

LT, thanks for posting that image, it's very nice!

Bird

Striker (Tony) · #13 14-12-2005, 07:55 PM

Very nice Saturn image William...

I still dont understand why it cant be imaged at higher rez...

So saying this if you wanted to print an A4 size image of a planet you can't do it....all images would have to be printed out on a very small scale due to the Rez.

davidpretorius · #14 14-12-2005, 08:04 PM

pushing that much data down the cable is a problem!

i ican only image at 5frames a second in raw mode.

Gary Beal had a camera that can do video at 1024 x 768 i think

Striker (Tony) · #15 14-12-2005, 08:14 PM

Yes I can understand that but with USB2 and firewire that has been around for years now 50mb a second should be ample.

I would love to see a huge image of a planet on a large scale.

Sorry to bring this up on your thread william..like I said you have a great image...a lot better then I could ever do.

asimov (John) · #16 14-12-2005, 09:11 PM

And a lot better than I could do also!!

What a splendid image William. Congrats!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #17 14-12-2005, 09:20 PM

The larger the image, the dimmer the image. You need a larger scope to gather more light, or a higher sensitivity camera.

Bird

asimov (John) · #18 15-12-2005, 05:26 AM

Please tell us your using a CCD webcam so that we mere mortals have a chance!!?

acropolite (Phil) · #19 15-12-2005, 08:03 AM

Superb image William..

LT_Ng · #20 23-12-2005, 02:13 AM

Thanks for the kind words and inputs from all of you, and sorry for my late response as I was very exhaused with career duties in the past 2 weeks.

This Saturn image was taken with ToUcam, and it is a stack of 1800 frames from 3 avi clips. Except the resolution, this is my best processed one upto now.

Paul, I don't think I had captured the Encke's gap. What you saw in the A ring is the so-called Encke minima. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Good seeing,

LT