Saturn - 1-3-07 from Sunshine Coast

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

It was nice to get out and about again. I only managed two runs with saturn on the night, and this is probably the better of the two. Seeing was only moderate at about 4-5/10 with only moderate transparency (maybe 6-7/10)

8" SCT with 2.5X powermate. Baader colour filters and DMK. LRGB comination of approx 150/1500 each for the colour and 250/2500 for the Luminance. Capture rate 15 fps for the colour and 30 fps for the luminance. Processed in Reg 4 and combined in ImagesPlus. Colour touchup in Photoshop CS2.

These filters are a bit tricky to get the colour right.

[Dennis]

Hi Paul

Wow – that looks very nice. All the good stuff is there; banding, colours, CD – where did you get the clear skies from…????

Cheers

Dennis

[middy]

That looks stunning! Puts my effort to shame. Obviously all the decent photons landed at the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane only got some crummy scattered ones.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Thanks guys. It was a lovely night up here until about midnight when I decided to call it quites. It's a bugger when you have to go to work the next day

Still got a bit of work to do yet as I mentioned getting the colour balance right. Plus a bit of work on dealing with the graininess though I think I pushed the f/ratio and gain a bit too much for Saturn with my scope..

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Whoops, I just realized I have the wrong date in the title. This was Thursday night the 1-3-07

[h0ughy (David)]

nice image paul, any more?

[sheeny (Al)]

Lovely!

Al.

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice Paul, looks sharp too.
You'll get there with the colour balance.
There's always a bit of a learning curve to master when you get new gear.

[Ric]

Very nice image Paul, It all come together nicely, nice colours, banding and ring system.

Cheers

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'm working on a Luna mosaic at the moment h0ughy. Nearly done.

[davidpretorius]

great to see the weather poking its nose up from being cruddy up north.

nice saturn, well done