Mars & Saturn March 9th in reasonable seeing.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,
Imaged Mars & Saturn March 9th in reasonable seeing.
For Mars I have attached 1 RGB & 1 807nm IR image along with an animation of all IR data captured over a 2hr session.
For Saturn I have attached 1 RGB & 807nm IR data set along with a short (2 frame) RGB animation. The animation shows structure within the storm remnant and also some clouds in the NEB.
Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Nice work Trevor!

[Lester]

Great images again Trevor, so sharp. The animation of Saturn has revealed structure detail within it bands that I have not noticed before. Appreciate the views as always.

[John Hothersall]

Fine results, Saturn storm detail still evident but at such low contrast, IR seems not to pick it up as much as the red channel.

John.

[Satchmo]

Trevor

Your first Mars image in this thread is the most natural piece of processing I've seen yet. I've added a Hubble Space Telescope Mars image at the same scale, to show how an image that probable had little sharpening looks in comparison. Certainly at that image scale you are not missing much detail.

I have to say that a lot of the amateur work on Mars looks over sharpened to me: its always characterised by a strong mottling in the features that often looks like detail but often contains artifacts from over- sharpening.

[Paul Haese]

I was away over the weekend and missed the seeing that seemed to arrive. Looks like your seeing run is continuing Trev. Nice work.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

very fine images Trevor - lovely restrained processing. Regards Ray

[Clayton]

More quality shots Trevor
I'm liking your Saturn animations a lot!

[Martin Pugh]

Trevor

excellent work. The HST comparison is remarkable. Well done.

cheers
Martin

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Nice work Trevor!

Thanks Asi, this was the start of a run of good seeing out here in the HIll.

Originally Posted by Lester

Great images again Trevor, so sharp. The animation of Saturn has revealed structure detail within it bands that I have not noticed before. Appreciate the views as always.

Thanks very much Lester for your most generous comment. The animations are quite time consuming but I think they convey more of the dynamics of what is happening within the atmosphere.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Fine results, Saturn storm detail still evident but at such low contrast, IR seems not to pick it up as much as the red channel.

John.

Thanks very much John, appreciate your comments.

Originally Posted by Satchmo

Trevor

Your first Mars image in this thread is the most natural piece of processing I've seen yet. I've added a Hubble Space Telescope Mars image at the same scale, to show how an image that probable had little sharpening looks in comparison. Certainly at that image scale you are not missing much detail.

I have to say that a lot of the amateur work on Mars looks over sharpened to me: its always characterised by a strong mottling in the features that often looks like detail but often contains artifacts from over- sharpening.

Thanks very much Mark, I always try to process with restraint but still occasionally fall into the trap of over doing it. At last I am having a run of seeing good enough to demonstrate just how good the optics that you produced for my scope really are.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

I was away over the weekend and missed the seeing that seemed to arrive. Looks like your seeing run is continuing Trev. Nice work.

Thanks Paul, the wind shear prediction have been spot on for this month, at least for out here in Broken Hill.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

very fine images Trevor - lovely restrained processing. Regards Ray

Thanks very much Ray.

Originally Posted by Clayton

More quality shots Trevor
I'm liking your Saturn animations a lot!

Thanks very much Rob, I really do enjoy creating my animations, especially when the seeing hangs in for long enough to get the data required.

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Trevor

excellent work. The HST comparison is remarkable. Well done.

cheers
Martin

Thanks very much Martin, it really is amazing what can be produced with this latest generation of CCD's, of course it also helps to have quality optics.