Saturn 24th April - Fair Seeing - now with 5200 frame repro added ??

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Hi All,

With the fullish moon up, I gave up on any deep sky and just tested out my new FCUSB and USB2EQ5 direct connect cable that I got for my birthday.

So I swung around to Saturn for a few captures. I forgot just how much disk space these videos take up. BAM, 10 Gb gone in 5 or 6 minutes.....

Anyway, here is a quick go at Saturn from 1334 UT, 1471 frames out of 1800 stacked (60 secs @ 30fps) using Registax 6, captured with DBK21AU618.AS and 5x Televue barlow on the 8" reflector (I assume at F25). Processed in Photoshop CS3 using Astra Image plugins for deconvolution.

Cheers

Chris

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

That turned out well Chris!

Must have a go, I'd be happy with an image like yours.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Looks good, Chris

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Thanks Justin,

I must admit, I keep looking at it, I think it's turned out the best one I have done on Saturn so far.

Cheers

Chris

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Looks good, Chris

Thanks Laurie

Cheers

Chris

[Rod771 (Rod)]

That's a great result Chris

Nice colour

Man! I've gotta get one of those 618 camera's

Although I say that about a lot of equipment

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Thanks Rod.

I agree!

The DBK on the C11 Edge HD would give awesome planetary goodness.

Good fun when the freaking moon is killing everything else.

Cheers

Chris

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Nicely done!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Great stuff.

[EricB (Eric)]

Great image Chris, well done!

Eric

[DavidU (Dave)]

Nice one Chris

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by U.K.Cowboy

Nicely done!

Thank you UK Cowboy

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Great stuff.

Cheers Jeanette, thanks

Originally Posted by EricB

Great image Chris, well done!

Eric

I appreciate that Eric, thanks mate.

Originally Posted by DavidU

Nice one Chris

Ta David, I think this one is my best so far, in ordinary seeing too....

Cheers

Chris

[Quark (Trevor)]

Good job Chris, planetary imaging certainly creates lots of data.

Cheers
Trevor

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Yep very nice Saturn Chris.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Quark

Good job Chris, planetary imaging certainly creates lots of data.

Cheers
Trevor

Thanks Trevor, I need more aperture!!!!!! But this is pretty good for an 8 incher.....

Originally Posted by Solar

Yep very nice Saturn Chris.

Thanks Ralph!

I have added a repro, well sort of, I stacked 5 videos together, over 5200 frames just to see if it improves anything? Not sure, see what you all think, I may just still like the first one a bit more, I dunno?

Cheers

Chris

[Troy]

Nice Saturn Chris

[Shiraz (Ray)]

nice work Chris. regards ray

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Troy

Nice Saturn Chris

Thanks Troy

Originally Posted by Shiraz

nice work Chris. regards ray

Cheers Ray, Thanks mate, it was the DBK that did all the work

Chris

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Originally Posted by seeker372011

Cheers

Chris