Hi All, Seeing settled down after Mars last night to have a go at Saturn, 6, maybe 7 out of 10 at times. Enough to give the 4x powermate a go. Transparency wasn't great though so had to have gain up to nearly 70%. Also took some avi with the 2.5 powermate where I could wind gain back to ~30%.
The 4 x shot is at left, not bad all things considered- had to stack a heap of frames though to reduce the grain 2184 of 3600 frames (Astra Image LR devonvolution). The other two are from the same avi post-processed with Unsharp Mask and LR deconvolution respectively.
The most interesting thing is the light spot found on the globe in both shots. I'm assuming this is a storm - does anyone know if it's a long-lived feature or a flare up?
enjoy