First Saturn

JohnH · #1 01-01-2006, 10:51 AM

First go at imaging Saturn with the new scope for me, and first in 2006 also. Not great but I was happy....taken with a meade LPI and 2x Barlow on the VC200L at about 2am today - I need more scale so I guess another Barlow is on the list...I let autostar Suite handle the stacking (set quality cut to 99%) which is not what the wise ones do...so there is pleanty of scope (sic) for improvement...

atalas · #2 01-01-2006, 11:06 AM

Congrats on your first Saturn capture John ! well done .

RB (Andrew) · #3 01-01-2006, 11:15 AM

Great start John.
Well done.

asimov (John) · #4 08-01-2006, 02:02 AM

Good on ya John! Well done.

Dennis · #5 08-01-2006, 05:50 AM

Hi John

That is a great shot, especially for a first effort - well done. How many images did the LPI stack at the 99% setting? Did you also use the "Track" option on the planetary disc?

Cheers

Dennis

davidpretorius · #6 08-01-2006, 09:25 AM

don't be too hard on yourself, i have been at saturn for months tryinig to get colour right etc.

you have great detail there, it is now just a matter of twiddling the lpi knobs for brighter and closer colour matching

well done, waaaayyyyy better than my first one!

Robert_T · #7 08-01-2006, 03:22 PM

great stuff John for a first Saturn attempt - it' a tricky planet and easy to under-expose. You might want to at some point try capturing avis with K3CCD (it allows you to do this with the LPI) so you can process with Registax and access all the wavelets etc functions of that tool.

Anyway good start!

JohnH · #8 11-01-2006, 04:10 PM

Had another go, a tad overprocessed this time I think but getting better -btw this was on 10 Jan at apporx midnight - seeing was poor - set gain to 100% offset to 50, quality to 70, eval count to 50. Post processed in Elements and cleaned up with Neat Image.

Robert_T · #9 11-01-2006, 04:15 PM

beautiful John - big improvement!

davidpretorius · #10 11-01-2006, 04:27 PM

overprocessed - i do not think so!!

if by overprocessed, you mean trying too hard to get detail. Your cassini division is one of the best this season.

i believe simply a colour issue.

it is not very far away from being very good!!!

asimov (John) · #11 11-01-2006, 05:12 PM

Yep! That's a good one! Plenty of detail & great CD. Well done.