Saturn season

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Saturn season

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Here is a 2nd attempt on 13 Feb with Mewlon 210 and Philips SPC900NC webcam. Better seeing helped to yield more detailed picture.
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Nice ... how many images did you stack?

Care you to share your processing method? :)

Thanks!
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Amazing picture indeed! Keep them comming . . . .
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Post by aquillae »

nice Saturn pic.
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Post by cataclysm »

Nice ... how many images did you stack?

Care you to share your processing method?
This is a composite of 2x800 AVI subframes. The images were captured and stacked with K3CCDTools into Tiff format. The 2 stacked images were being further tweaked, one sharpened and the other blured. The final image was median combined with ImagesPlus.
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Post by jermng »

Thanks for your info. It's an amazing picture. :)

The only time I got a planetary picture close to this was with Remus' help .. HAHA ... I should start practicing more .. :)
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Very nice!
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very nice....worldclass,

thanks to the saturn opposition that we can enjoy such great view of Saturn....

2 nites ago, i used mewlon 210 with nagler t6 7mm with a mag of 354x, Saturn was at it best i ever seen...( it was eye popping and the once a lifetime views )....the cassini belt was magical and the north temperate belt on saturn is like clear as day.
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Nice image, but it seems like you have stacked two different sets of images before and after opposition, as I see two shadows on the rings, on both left and right side of Saturn. Visually, we can't see both shadows on the rings simultaneously. :)
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rlow wrote:Seems like you have stacked two different sets of images before and after opposition, as I see two shadows on the rings, on both left and right side of Saturn. We can't see this visually. :)
looking at saturn "pinch" where the ring is intercepting perhaps suggest that it could be the anomaly of the stacking software....

There is a new version of registax v4...you want to try out to see if it is the same effect.
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