Saturn - 26/05/2015

[rodrigol]

A stack of 1500 frames from 3x500 AVIs with EZPlanetary using a QHY5L-II C on a CPC800 on a wedge aligned using Starsense. My son (15) volunteered to stay out and help with focusing, keeping cables tidy, etc. Just because of him, one of the best nights ever - actually, this is the first proper observation night after big surgery (3 level ADSF) in December. Great to not do it alone! As Saturn is so low I was surprised we got this far on a 8" F/10.

Processing: PIPP - AutoStacker2 - PS (to sort out colour balance and sharpen things). 

[kenny k]

Hi Rodrigol,great to hear your out having fun with your son enjoying this wonderful hobby together.

Nice image,focus looks good but colour seems off.Ive no experience with the Qhy5-ll C but im sure someone who has will be a long to help.

Kenny

[knobby]

Not too shabby ! Saturn is very hard being so low

[rodrigol]

I though I had the colour balance sorted out...will review. Sorry for the double post.

[rodrigol]

Colour. And hue balanced now. I think it looks more like the real thing now. I think my son agrees :-)

[kenny k]

Your son is right!

Excellent image, you & your son should be very chuffed.

Kenny

[Pete Presland]

Nice well done for the 2nd image especially.

[Space Cowboy]

Nice capture! Make sure you select GR in EZ plantetary to have the correct bayer setting and then hit the "global whitebalance" to get the correct colour balance in live view. If the colour still looks off move the colour sliders. Usually blue needs to be very high and red pretty low. Next select RAW to capture the avi in raw mode and when opening the avi in autostakkert make sure it has selected the correct colour mode. If it looks weird ie not what you saw on live view go to "colour" and select "force bayer GRBG".

After all this if the colour still looks slightly off then use "auto RGB balance" on registax wavelets page after you have stacked the image.

Hope this helps.