Saturn 24.4.11 Luminance filter

[malp]

Planets and Comets

Captured this on 24th using the Lum filter (RGB still to be processed) on the 12" Meade sct. Conditions reasonably steady compared to previous nights but a lot of light pollution from haze.

[Notts star]

NICE how do you get saturn so close

[malp]

Thanks. I used a x2.5 Powermate to get closer. Tried the x5 Powermate but seeing wasn’t up to it.

[riklaunim]

You need to sharpen that now Using broadband filters on Saturn will be vey hard as first you need to have good seeing, and then you have the problem of atmospheric refraction that will blur your image. I've tried L filter few times but it didn't provide anything good for a L-RGB (even having a lot of frames on short exposures). Red broadband filters (visual red Baader/other filters) tend to give good and sharp results in my case.

[malp]

Colour added, RGB image:

Planets and Comets