Saturn 12 June RGB & IR

[Maurice]

Hello all

Attached are some images of Saturn from the 12th June.
Seeing was fair to good occasionally. Times are in each image title.
I've also taken an IR set showing some northern latitude storm activity.

C14 @ 7900mm, ASI120MM, Astronomik RGB, Custom Scientific Bessel IR

Best wishes
Maurice

[Rac (Raymond)]

Very nice.

[John K]

Nice going Maurice - looks like your best so far.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Maurice. Great detail, good colour balance too.

[Somnium (Aidan)]

simply great work

[ags_ (Phil)]

well done, you captured the dark spot accurately

[kkara4 (Krishan)]

Excellent images Maurice

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Far out they are good Maurice, could you do a colour version using the IR data..?

Mike

[Maurice]

Thanks to all for your comments.

Paul, when are you going to start planetary imaging again? Miss your work..

Mike. Ok I'll process an IR blended version & post in the next couple of days..

cheers
Maurice

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Mike. Ok I'll process an IR blended version & post in the next couple of days..

cheers
Maurice

Cool

[kkara4 (Krishan)]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Thanks to all for your comments.

Paul, when are you going to start planetary imaging again? Miss your work..

Mike. Ok I'll process an IR blended version & post in the next couple of days..

cheers
Maurice

Second this RE a blended version! keen to see how you go about doing it to, really want to do it with my IR images but not sure where to start!

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Thanks to all for your comments.

Paul, when are you going to start planetary imaging again? Miss your work..

..... cheers
Maurice

The cold is putting me off Maurice, but I am planning a remote planetary imaging rig to get past that being in the cold business and having to stay up all night. Might be a few years yet.

That said, Saturn looks so good right now, so I will be trying to collect an image or two before this apparition is over.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

The cold is putting me off Maurice, but I am planning a remote planetary imaging rig to get past that being in the cold business and having to stay up all night. Might be a few years yet.

That said, Saturn looks so good right now, so I will be trying to collect an image or two before this apparition is over.

Good to hear!
Don't let that cold stuff bother you...its all in the mind...
...or so they tell me.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by kkara4

Second this RE a blended version! keen to see how you go about doing it to, really want to do it with my IR images but not sure where to start!

Hi Krishan..
Converted RBG to Lab mode & blended the luminance channel with the IR image to taste.. see above

regards
Maurice

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah that looks great Maurice, more detail around the north (?) pole the globe looks slightly smaller, or is that an illusion..?

Mike

[gregbradley]

Killer images Maurice. I am still amazed at the quality of these types of images. Really up there.

Are you planning to active cool your SCT?

Greg.