Another Afocal Saturn

[paulF (Paul)]

Hey everyone,
another attempt at Saturn afocaly. Seing/transparency was less than average.
I used my Kodak Z812 IS and a 10mm nagler with my 10inch Bintel Dob. I also added 5x optical zoom at the camera.
Tried to use my Barlow lense but not having tracking is too frustrating.Spent 3 hours with no luck at high magnification since the planet move out of the field of view quiet fast and nudging the scope yields to blurry movies.

I used RAD video tools to convert the videos to BMP frames, NINOX to center the planet in the middle of the frames and Registax for processing followed by some photoshop tweaking.I also used Astra Image for deconvultion.
I'm happy with this one, as i believe i can see the C ring and the divisions and some of the storm

Cheers

[Stu Ward]

That's pretty nice for afocal. You can see the division which is always nice.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Well done Paul, a nice result for the method used with some nice detail in the rings and you certainly have the storm. I suppose this really underlines just how bright the storm really is, it should easily be visible in the eyepiece of most well collimated scopes.

Regards
Trevor