Saturn this morning, Feb 27

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Attached is an image from this morning in steady conditions showing Saturn and Titan. A white storm is faintly visible close to the CM in "storm alley", ie approx latitude 35S. North is at the top in this image. The longitude of this storm is approximately 48.8 degrees CM3..

regards,Bird

ps please ignore the edge artifacts on the left of Saturns disk in my images, I'm following up with the manufacturer of this camera to see what is causing this.

[Troy]

Very good Anthony,
Heaps of detail. Have you tried using one of your other cameras’s to see if the artifact is still there?

[duncan]

Lovely image Bird. Best i've seen for a while. Lots of detail in there.
Cheers

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Troy, I checked with my other camera (a dragonfly express) a couple of mornings ago and the artifact was not present, so it's certainly looking like something inside this camera is at fault.

cheers, Bird

[Troy]

Bird does it have a random fail mode or is it happening every time. If its random you would have to check a few times with your other camera?

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

seems to be happening in every one of my saturn images, and it was also doing it last year as well...

cheers, Bird

[Troy]

Bird do you really notice this at the deconvolution stage (Astra Image) in your processing regime??
If so have you tried lowering the gamma to .98 at the capture stage. I don't think it would work after capture?

[Lester]

Outstanding image Anthony.

All the best for more.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Originally Posted by Troy

Bird do you really notice this at the deconvolution stage (Astra Image) in your processing regime??
If so have you tried lowering the gamma to .98 at the capture stage. I don't think it would work after capture?

Hi Troy, the artifacts are in the image after stacking in registax.

cheers, Bird

[TrevorW]

A little Bird told me thats a top image

well done Tony

[Quark (Trevor)]

Most impressive work Bird,

The cloud feature is a top catch and even in RGB seems quite well defined. How better defined was it, if at all, in the R channel?

Regards
Trevor

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks all, Trevor it's pretty faint in all channels but maybe green showed it the best. The seeing was only good for this one capture, there was high cirrus moving in and poor seeing in front of it so no animation this time :-)

cheers, Bird

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Anthony,

Nice detail in the image.

Frank

[circumpolar (Matt)]

Great work.
Notice the little shadow on the rings just to the left of the planets edge. Opposition is very close.
Every year it's getting a little higer in the sky.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Sweet image! Ihope you figure out the artifact issue.