Saturn, June 20, from Melbourne

[Stefan Buda]

Yep, except the image is not that good, but it explains the wink.
My daughter thinks I'm on the autism spectrum and she's probably right .

[g__day (Matthew)]

Very nice shot!

[iceman (Mike)]

Stefan it's supposed to be IOTW (week) but I'm a bit lazy updating at the moment, so that's why I said Quarter

It's a lovely image!

[Stefan Buda]

Originally Posted by iceman

Stefan it's supposed to be IOTW (week) but I'm a bit lazy updating at the moment, so that's why I said Quarter

It's a lovely image!

Aha, "lazy" was the keyword - now it makes sense even to me!

And thanks for the comments guys.

[ausastronomer (John Bambury)]

Irrespective of seeing conditions, a primary needing a recoat, or whatever, that's one of the best images of Saturn I have seen. Unlike many "so called" great images of Saturn, this one doesn't seem to me to be "overprocessed".

I think it's brilliant.

Cheers,
John B

[Stefan Buda]

Originally Posted by ausastronomer

Irrespective of seeing conditions, a primary needing a recoat, or whatever, that's one of the best images of Saturn I have seen. Unlike many "so called" great images of Saturn, this one doesn't seem to me to be "overprocessed".

I think it's brilliant.

Cheers,
John B

Thanks John!

This is what I did:

For each colour I used about 1000 frames out 3000 and allowed Autostakkert to do its standard deconvolution with 25% raw blend.

For stage 2 I used Astra Image to do a very small amount of Maximum Entropy deconvolution on each stack. Radius 1 for R, 1,1 for G and 1.2 for B. All with 5 passes and exponential psf.

Stage 3: Registered, RGB combined and white balanced in IRIS. Increased colour saturation just a little and applied the crisp filter in moderation.

Stage 4: Put it through Noiseware Community Edition using the Landscape setting.

[yoda776 (Matt)]

Awesome image mate I agree one of the best images of Saturn I have seen.