Setup late arvo, messed around till about 11pm - Saturn hides behind next doors HUGE gum tree and Jupiter was still too low. Came back out around 2ish after Saturn had appeared on the other side of the gum tree + Jupiter more favourable hieght, ended up with these by sun rise.
Is that a hint of the GRS in the upper band on the left? Hope not, I spent about 1.5 hours takin an over exposed image every 5mins trying to record some piddly moons revolving around the planet when I could been concentrating on the GRS transiting!!!
Great shots, i'll do some wavelet processing in them and see what I can do with them.
How come they're black and white? Doesn't the QC image in colour?
It also looks like Venus is overexposed - what settings on the capture did you use? You could try really low gain or a faster shutter speed to make it less bright and get the phase detail.
Very nice shots!
I tried to image Saturn last night but clouds ruined the fun.. this morning was clear but I was too tired to get up early again.
Great effort...
A planet quadruplet!!!... The Saturn is stunning. Did you have poorer seeing for Jupiter. I would have expected crisper detail considering the detail you have with Saturn.
Still great work. Getting good planet shots is one of the most challenging things in astrophotography. So many things count against you.. Seeing, collimation, Northern Dec etc etc! not to mention the Registax mission.
Cheers
Yeah the QC does colour, think I need to up the saturation a bit - was at about 25-33% I think (really should start takin notes of these things), was afraid of washing the colours out with too much saturation.
Saturn and Jupiter were taken with very little gain, and just enough brightness to see an image on the screen, but once I starting takin the over exposed images to get Jupiters moons, for some reason the camera/software would lock up untill gain and/or brighness was increased again - so started to become a trade-off of high gain+brightness or nothing at all .
Edit: Thanks Robby
Ice, found the colour issue (I thought it was strange there wasn't much colour - jsut too tired to really notice ) ...damn Registax didn't feel like processing in colour so it unclicked the 'colour processing' option - I'll update with colour versions asap
Last edited by Comet Hunter; 14-01-2005 at 11:20 AM.
Robby, Jupiter was taken shortly after Saturn - within the hour for these particular shots I'd guess - conditions seemed to be the same throughout till early dawn.
Mike, yep will do re: retry Venus/Mercury - hadn't planned on bagging them but noticed they were up and I'd had plenty of Jupiter avi's by then. If'd I'd put abit more thought into the nights imaging I could've gotten Mars too . Though 4 out of 7 planets aint bad (Pluto's too dim to pick up so it doesn't count )
Hey Comet hunter , your from Ipswich I'm from Lockyer valley we have Graeme from Laidley and there are a couple more out this way ---I think we have enough for our own Local Astro fest.
and Jupiter was still too low. Came back out around 2ish after Saturn had appeared on the other side of the gum tree + Jupiter more favourable hieght, ended up with these by sun rise.
to you all
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) ...damn Registax didn't feel like processing in colour so it unclicked the 'colour processing' option 
- I'll update with colour versions asap
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