Saturn & Mars 1st Feb.

[asimov (John)]

Hi Chris & thanks mate. Yeah, I'm almost impressed with the side by side myself lol.

Thanks Stephen.

Here you go Trevor. Top left is the original size & the resize bottom right. Found Tethys in the RAW footage, so I highlighted it by stretching the heck out of the Registax final stack & superimposed it onto this final..Enceladus is right next to it but it was too hard a task to resolve it. Extremely happy with this Saturn capture now.

[Domol (Domenic)]

Wow!! Great shots. best i've seen thru a C11!. Are they at f50?

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Both very nice images John.
There's a lot of detail in the Mars image, really like it.
Saturn looks great, never ceases to amaze me the details that can be seen from this distance.

[asimov (John)]

Hi Domenic - You are right, I should add some capture details.

Thanks Michael!

Mars was imaged at F40 (11" SCT) in 7-7.5/10 seeing.13:30 AM AEST. Alt 68 degrees. 180s capture @ 60 FPS. Gain was set at 60% with an exposure of 1/61s. 105 gamma (100 default). 3000 stacked in Registax Ver. 6 with 5 alignment points. Y800 codec & debayered in Firecapture Debayer tool. Resampling (130%) to the RAW data was applied in VirtualDub.
Post processing was done in Paint.net.

Saturn was imaged at F22 (11" SCT) in the same seeing. Alt. 65 degrees 15:30 AEST 1st Febuary.
133s capture only due to incoming cloud @ 30 FPS. Gain was set to 100% with an exposure of 1/31s. 105 gamma (100 default) 1500 stacked in Registax Ver. 6 with 3 alignment points. Y800 codec & debayered in Firecapture Debayer tool. Resampling (110%) to the RAW data was applied in VirtualDub. A further resize up in Registax.
Post processing in Paint.net.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Hi Chris & thanks mate. Yeah, I'm almost impressed with the side by side myself lol.

Thanks Stephen.

Here you go Trevor. Top left is the original size & the resize bottom right. Found Tethys in the RAW footage, so I highlighted it by stretching the heck out of the Registax final stack & superimposed it onto this final..Enceladus is right next to it but it was too hard a task to resolve it. Extremely happy with this Saturn capture now.

Really like the original Asi, very crisp but still the "C" ring came up quite well. You would have to be stoked with that. In good seeing I reckon you would get away with a lot more than 6.1 m F/L. I am getting good results at 9.6 m with the 5x PM, obviously the 5x PM isn't going to work with the C11 but just wonder if you have ever looked at getting out around 10 m F/L.

Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Hi Trevor. The Saturn capture was a bit like imaging the ISS I think. After imaging Mars @ F40 it clouded out & I knew F40 would be miles too much for Saturn, so I swapped to the 2X barlow just to be ready for when Saturn popped out from the cloud cover. Had I had something like 5 or 10 mins I would have gone to F25 or higher. As it was it was only 133 secs worth & the other 15 odd secs was spent doing the camera settings & focus. It's the nature of sucker hole imaging in QLD on the coast - Be ready or post nothing.

I like the original too. Normally I don't bother to resize but lately I've been guilty of it..

Thanks Trevor.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Great views - thanks!

[asimov (John)]

Hi Matt & thanks mate.

Lucky last Mars.