first attempt at Saturn :)

[Bumfluff]

Hi guys,

Had A great night last night got a few pics of the moon and Saturn, I quickly tried to process these through DSS but after a quick search I found I need to use Registax for planets. I was getting a no stars found error so it wouldn't stack my pics. Anyway, here is a single sub I took, I will have another go at stacking through Registax after work tonight.

The second image is simply a cropped version of the first. I know compared to others on here these images are pretty rubbish. but they're my first so I wanted to share with you all

I did take some brighter images but they just seemed too bright. These are darker as I thought I'll take some darker ones and stack them to hopefully get a reasonable image. I'm still a total newbie and I am still playing trial and error with my set-up!..... Happy days

Oh and these are NOT the actual subs I took this is a resized image I lifted off my facebook page....

Thanks for reading

Greg

[kris h]

Nice Image Greg

[Mamsoth]

Hi Greg, the more you practice the better you'll get. Now you've got your first pics there'll be no stopping you m8.

Matt

[Cloudwatcher]

Tried to get a bit of detail using Photoshop CS3....... not much joy I'm afraid.

[Telrad]

That's a really good first attempt Greg. Well done!

I like the way Cloudwatcher has cleaned the image up and given it more definition with photoshop too. Brilliant! Thanks for posting!

[Bumfluff]

Thanks Cloudwatcher, thats an amazing difference... a fellow photoshopper at work has asked me to ask "what did he do?"

I would also be very interested in your reply

Also, are all those stars added or just my original image cleaned up?

Thanks again

Greg

[Cloudwatcher]

Thanks Cloudwatcher, thats an amazing difference... a fellow photoshopper at work has asked me to ask "what did he do?"

I would also be very interested in your reply

Also, are all those stars added or just my original image cleaned up?

Thanks again

Greg

The "stars" show up when you increase the levels although I'm not too sure that they are all true stars,some may be "noise" but whatever,I think they add interest to the image.

As far as the planet is concerned this was isolated and some blurring,contrast and saturation applied.

HTH

[philhas]

Nice attempt Greg, what did you use to capture the image?