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Old 22-04-2011, 02:31 AM
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Saturn 21st April

Reasonable seeing. It was fluctuating badly most of the time but on this AVI it steadied reasonably well to get quite a few good frames (3456).

F32 15FPS 1/19th sec exp. Full gain 103 gamma (default 100). Resized up.

I'm back to my old dull monitor so it's a hard task getting used to it again. Hopefully the colour balance is somewhat correct as I haven't bothered to calibrate yet. I've reformatted the Toshy so I'm working with everything factory reset.

The obs is pretty well fully functional now (minus a roof) but I'm using a roll off tarp temporarily until I finish. Still, it's a joy not to have to pull it down & walk it all back into the shed!

C11/DBK
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Old 22-04-2011, 11:03 AM
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Very nice Saturn Asi.
Colour looks fine to me
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Old 22-04-2011, 02:32 PM
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Thanks for the feedback Rob.

Found a moon (Dione) in the AVI so here's a repro with enhanced moon.
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Old 22-04-2011, 03:53 PM
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Storm detail shows well for reasonable seeing and colours are excellent as usual, usually ignore the moons but enhancement certaily adds to the image.

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Old 22-04-2011, 04:18 PM
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Lovely Saturn Asi, something to aspire to with the one shot DBK. Seeing not looking too bad here in Adelaide over the next few evenings - hopefully will get a little more practice in.

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Old 22-04-2011, 10:29 PM
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That a real beauty Asi, colour looks fine to me and nice detail within the storm. How long before you have the 14 capturing Saturnian photons from the new obs?

Bit snowed under over Easter with a lawn bowls carnival but will try and check in to see if you post anymore stuff like this, certainly look forward to more.

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Old 23-04-2011, 09:47 AM
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Good stuff John. I particularly like the processing. Very similar rendering to Damian's that I received this morning. Nice work.

Seeing last night was ok but I was too stuffed to be bothered from yesterdays events.
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Old 23-04-2011, 09:52 AM
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Thanks guys.

Trev, the next night of good seeing will probably see the introduction of the 14". With that extra OTA length (extra lever arm action) I've had to go to considerable painstaking lengths to setup the backlash on both axes on the EQ6. Looks like I need to strip her down one last time to get it on the money.
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Old 23-04-2011, 09:55 AM
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Hi Paul. Us 'oldies' (me included) have come a long way with processing. I scoff at my processing from past years, but the fact is, all newbies need to go through the over processing & grain adding stage.

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Old 23-04-2011, 10:13 AM
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I love it Asi,


I've been playing around with a new dbk41 and my c 9.25 for the last couple of weeks and have had not a great deal of success, Hopefully over the next few days, I'll post something.

I think now, that the problem is collimation, and not that I can't use the camera, so another night of mucking around and then I hope to finally get an image worth posting.

Oh the fun of it all.


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Old 23-04-2011, 11:11 AM
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Glad you like the image Darren. Why the 41? I guess you main focus is moon mosaics?
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Old 23-04-2011, 01:58 PM
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Hi John,

That is a great image, well done!
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Old 23-04-2011, 08:29 PM
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Thanks Matt!

Time for a resample I reckon!
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Old 23-04-2011, 08:33 PM
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Man,

That's a corker John!

The last one is my favourite, so crisp and detailed!

Well done.

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Old 23-04-2011, 08:46 PM
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Hey there Chris...While I'm remembering (one of my lucid moments) Happy bloody birthday dude!

Thanks mate!
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Old 23-04-2011, 09:00 PM
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Thanks John,

Much appreciated, all I need is for the clouds to go away and I can have a go at Saturn myself, I need a bit of a planetary fix...

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Old 24-04-2011, 09:51 PM
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NICE resample Asi
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Old 25-04-2011, 08:37 AM
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Thanks Rob
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Excellent images John. Storm detail is exceptional. Regards Ray
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Old 26-04-2011, 10:24 AM
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