Saturn 18th Feb

[rogerg (Roger)]

G'day all,

I don't typically enter in to planetary imaging much, I tend not to have much success with it so stick to the deep sky. However, tonight I thought I'd better get a shot of Saturn for the year. In fact, it's one of the first I've tried of Saturn with my QuickCam that I bought for Mars in 2003.

I'm really happy with it considering my previous attempts. It wouldv'e been nice to put the 2x on and see what I got, but viewing suddenly deteriorated to the point that I am now in the observatory with the roof closed and a strong wind gusting around outside (typical easterly blowing through for a hot day tomorrow).

I was trying a different tact tonight, recording using K3CCDTools to get uncompressed videos. Means I now have 8 gig used by 6 video's, but perhaps it helped to get that bit more quality. Not all videos processed yet, at about 2000 frames each my computer's taking a while over it, but I don't expect much different results to what I have here:

http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=259

Roger.

[davidpretorius]

great effort, a little extra image scale is always what we want more of. Damn conditions, never let us have 10,000 x

[Robert_T]

Nice Roger... sure you're not tempted to come further to the planetary side away from that deep sky stuff?

If you're using Regstax yu might want to try an RGBALign "estimate" is the wavelets window. Looks like the red and bluw in this one are a bit misaligned.

cheers

[rogerg (Roger)]

Thanks for that Robert - I'll give it a shot.

Roger.

Originally Posted by Robert_T

Nice Roger... sure you're not tempted to come further to the planetary side away from that deep sky stuff?

If you're using Regstax yu might want to try an RGBALign "estimate" is the wavelets window. Looks like the red and bluw in this one are a bit misaligned.

cheers