Hi all, got my first run at Saturn last night in calm dewy conditions. Some star twinkle up to 20 degrees. Saturn looked very steady through 5mm eyepiece. I used DFK and DMK with 2.5x barlow. I may have a retweek at these later. There are 3 (I think) satellites to the left of Saturn that are visible in the DMK image.
Excellent, beautiful images Lester. The moons are Rhea (lower left), Dione (upper left) and Tethys (closest to planet)). And assuming the image was taken at around 13:00UT last night you also have captured Enceladus (magnitude 11.8, visible in the 1st picture top left close in to the planet, and in the 2nd picture if levels are pushed).
Thanks for your reply Mike. I am not sure what is causing the banding; with the DFK part of the screen background was brighter than the other 75%, with line verticle just to the left of Saturn. Someone may be able to help here.
Some really nice data there Lester definitely worth revisiting, both images are extremely bright on my screen maybe some gamma reduction and a curves adjustment would rein in the brightness and better reveal the wealth of detail in this most excellent data.
Well done and great to see you back into some planetary work.
Regards
Trevor
Thanks for your comments, Ray, Trevor, Troy and Rob. It's been so long since I have processed a planetary image, that I need to do some more to get my processing recipe worked out.
Here is a repro of the DMK. Did a multi alignment in Registax and reduced the deconvolution in Astra image with the blue and green channels. Also helps to proces without a dull head.
Here is a repro of the DMK. Did a multi alignment in Registax and reduced the deconvolution in Astra image with the blue and green channels. Also helps to proces without a dull head.
Certainly getting there Lester, reckon your most definitely back and what a sweet data set to play with.
![[1ponders]'s Avatar](../vbiis/customavatars/avatar45_9.gif){kind=avatar}
