Saturn 27th April

[beamish]

I reckon last night might actually be the end of the season re Saturn for me I hope I'm wrong but.....

end with a high !

The skies last night particularly earlier on were close to very good, almost as the 4th Sept for Joop, but not long enough

BUT I'm happy see what you think....

[Space Cowboy]

Wow!!!!

i don't have to ask if your pleased with the flea Karlo its plain to see lol Fantastic images! So smooth so natural!

If you don't mind me asking how much was your camera?

[beamish]

Cheers Stuart

I'll pm you

[Spikey]

Fantastic clarity on the RGB shots Karlo.

Looks like you've hit the bullseye with that flea and yes I am jealous

[neil phillips]

Nice shots Karlo, at some point, i will have to get a hi frame rate version of this. Either the flea. or the imaging source if they ever release it. but for now as you know ill be joining you. with a lower frame rate version. Glad you got some colour work done after your dissapointment recently. Hopefully thats put those memorys to bed. whats it like working with this camera ? what frame rates and exposures you getting with the Mak ?

[samtheeagle]

Fantastic pics Karlo, you're making me green with envy I must google this flea I've been hearing so much about!

[AztecastroMcJ]

Great results Karlo

all r great, large size is good esp for rings

but bit more detail in others i reckon on planet esp storm detail,

yep i too want a flea aswell lol

have u ? are u parting with modded spc then ?

James

[beamish]

Cheers guys !

Neil the exp and fps are as follows:

in the 1st

R=43ms at 23fps, histo 52%

G=43ms at 10fps, histo 38%

B=48ms at 20fps (! didn't notice that),histo 22%

F36 =63ms, 15fps histo44%

and the last

R=53ms, 18fps 42%

G=49ms, 20fps 41%

B=60ms, 16fps histo33%

Still learning about the cam and the software of course, last night was the first time in "anger" I managed to get the Ascom support working for the Filterwheel ( real boon!).

Not happy about the filing tho need to check that out , causes some confusion ??

I didn't even get a chance to drift align the mount so constantly hand the hand set working trying to keep centred- oh the other bug bear, is 12 bit .ser files, LucamRecorder did a wonderful job of converting them to .avi's that could then be run thru Castrator, I miss that function- Reg5 or 6 don't do quite a neat job of cropping and centring.

Please don't mention Ninox

So if anyone out there knows of something that will convert .ser to avi let me know !

otherwise I may have to resort to either the long way around or 8 bit mono

[beamish]

Great results Karlo

all r great, large size is good esp for rings

but bit more detail in others i reckon on planet esp storm detail,

yep i too want a flea aswell lol

have u ? are u parting with modded spc then ?

James

Cheers James,

'fraid it's gone to better place you'll soon be seeing it do great things with Neil's set up !

[astroman001]

Superb images Karlo, nice to see someone is getting good seeing.

regards

Peter

[Clayton]

Nice images Karlo. Even caught the Encke in the Red channel.

[nightfisher]

lovely job karlo

[beamish]

Cheers chaps