Saturn April 19-20th QHY IR + DFK Colour

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Tried out the new colour QHY5L-ll for the first time but had major colour balance issues plus horrid seeing (now figured it out for next time).

Anyhow seeing did improve for a 20 min slot so shot IR with the mono QHY and a colour DFK capture.

1st image QHY IR+ DFK Colour

2nd DFK Colour.

Taken at 23 degrees elevation with 3x barlow (plus extension for DFK)

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Turns out the colour balance issue with the colour QHY was down to AS!2 auto colour selection. Selecting "force GRBG" fixed it so here is a 1st light with that cam (only 500 frames stacked as seeing was very poor)

The other image is a 125% upscale of 26 mins data from the 3 cams QHY colour, QHY mono IR & DFK colour.

[allan gould]

Well captured images Stuart, especially for the low altitude you have to contend with.
Allan

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Originally Posted by U.K.Cowboy

Turns out the colour balance issue with the colour QHY was down to AS!2 auto colour selection. Selecting "force GRBG" fixed it so here is a 1st light with that cam (only 500 frames stacked as seeing was very poor)

The other image is a 125% upscale of 26 mins data from the 3 cams QHY colour, QHY mono IR & DFK colour.

I like the 125er. You will have a ball when Saturn climbs a bit higher.
The colour comes out different in my DBK21-618.

[EricB (Eric)]

Good work Stuart!

Eric

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Thanks guys! Sadly Saturn does not get above 25 degrees in the UK so not much to look forward too lol I increase saturation in image analyser and also use colour noise reduction so maybe that's why my colours are different and the IR influence too.