Thanks again, I'm humbled by your comments. It means a lot. Planetary imaging can be very frustrating thanks to such variable seeing conditions, but as Davo says, once you've done the hard yards in the preparation, the capture settings and the processing, when you do get that ripper of a night, you're ready to produce a great image.
I'm happy that images like this can be produced on fairly humble equipment.. my next upgrade would be a new camera (DMK/Lumenera/DX) but it's not a cheap route so it's going to have to wait.
Paul, I'll be there.. but you'd need to pay for the family too
I am going to write a how-to on my capture/processing, but it's true what Damian Peach says - if the seeing is really good, then very little processing is needed. Dennis has proved that time and time with his marvellous images this apparation, with so little processing.
My processing routines help to extract the best out of an image in less than excellent seeing. I used the same routines on these images, I think it can still help even on great raw data.
LT, I think there'll definitely be an opportunity to meet when you come out! I look forward to it. Definitely create a thread in general chat and we can discuss it there!
Thanks again everyone.
