Saturn from Melbourne this morning

[John K]

Hi guys,

have not posted for a while, but had a go at Saturn this morning.

The seeing looked really promising and the image was quite steady on the laptop screen but when processing I found that the blue channel really suffers from the low altitude (37 degrees) and makes things difficult. Will keep playing with the AVI's I captured but here are the first processing results including the RED channel.

250 frames RGB slipt, ME Deconvolution in AstraImage and some mild unsharp masking in P/Shop.

Have a great Xmas and NY's everyone!

John.

[matt]

Well done John.

Was up around 2 this morning enjoying Saturn visually.

Seeing here wasn't up to imaging, unfortunately.

What time was this captured?

Cheers

[Lester]

Fantastic John,

the banding is very prominent, great image for such a low altitude.

[Dave47tuc (David)]

Great shot John

I hope to get one like that one day

[davidpretorius]

fantastic!

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice shot John, I was up this morning as well but still processing. Seeing was only 5/10 or less though unfortunately, so not rushing to process them

Great image scale and colours. The CD is a bit wide indicating too much processing given the seeing conditions.

[Robert_T]

Hi John, what amazing banding. It must be really prominent at the moment because Mike's really showed it off as well. Great stuff!

cheers,

[Dennis]

Hi John

Must have missed this the first time through, glad I saw it on the 2nd pass! What an incredible image scale and a wonderful image of the ringed planet - well done under difficult conditions.

Cheers

Dennis

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Saturn images are starting to come in thick and fast now.
You've captured some beautiful subtle banding and the colours are lovely.