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[geppetto]

Been out chasing Venus and Saturn tonight and decided to try lots of different settings

on the Toucam.

Turns out I've been planet imaging with not enough gain turned up on the camera.

Very happy bunny with the results..

Venus and Saturn 200mm F6 reflector 2x barlow Toucam prime focus

[russ]

Very happy bunny with the results.. bunny

And so you should be Phil........flippin fantastic......well done!!!!

You've really nailed Saturn, great colour, detail and focus.

Russ

[Greg]

Oooff.... :shock:

WELL DONE THAT MAN.....

What settings on the Toucam pray tell.......Apart from the gain....

PLEASE.....PLEASE..

Awsome pic....

Quote from Mrs. P..."Why can't you get a picture like that...."

:D

I shall have to cut her allowance

[geppetto]

Greg

Settings were..

Brightness 60%

Colour 100%

Gamma 10%

Gain 35%

FPS 10

500 frames Registax

Can't remember the shutter speed sadly but it was the gain that did it.

I've been imaging too dark thinking Registax would balance it up.

Major step forward for me, I know it's only a picture but it's taken me three years plodding

to get that....

Blimey I'm really chuffed :D

[Jamie]

I can feel your excitement from here mate.

A priceless image for you i bet.

Well done Philip....

[blinky]

Will need to give they settings a whirl. I always turn the gain OFF when imaging as I thought it introduced noise. If it does it must be good noise

[lunator]

Phil

The Saturn pic is top draw.

Well done, you've really nailed it

Cheers

Ian

[Cloudgazer]

Nicely done Phil..

The Saturn's a beauty.. looks like you've found a winner with those settings.

Scott

[geppetto]

Thanks folks

I shall retire to my bed a happy soul

[Caz]

That's a beautiful shot of Saturn Phil, no wonder your a happy You have had a very successful and productive night. Wonderful 8)

[GazOC]

Tell us the settings then....

That Saturn is a stormer mate! Well done.

[Astroman]

Saturn's great, but Venus is a VERY tough target. Nicely done!

[magician]

Phil

Hard work, patience, and perseverence, have paid off ,that is a Stunner! I am delighted for you, well done.

CheersFrank

[CELESCOPE]

Hey well done on that Phil , you cracked it , excellent image , no wonder you are pleased #

Rog

[geppetto]

Thanks for the encouragement folks

Tell us the settings then....

Listed back up the page mate

Venus is a VERY tough target

Spent more time getting the Venus than Saturn AM, wanted to capture a good shape to it.

Very pleased with both. 8)

[Jaffa007]

Liking those a lot Phil, nice work. :thumbleft:

[moondog]

First class images Phil - no wonder you're pleased. Well done!

8)

MD

[dazza1639]

You should be very happy indeed, a couple of stunner's.

Darren

[CELESCOPE]

A little tip Phil, was told this by a guy who does some good images of Planets , i have not given it a good go yet , ,but like you say he says turns the gain up as much as possible and saturation up as well, this gets a lot more data , and of course the noise level is dealt with by the stacking, , i have been doing Planets on and off for a few years ,and never had great success, done ok ones, but getting that collimation spot on is the trick i think , i,m going to pop in a 6 mm eyepiece and do a collimation with that, but getting back to your one , its a great image , but looking at the rings , what do u think , is this poor conditions or maybe collimation, hope you dont mind me saying this .

Rog

[Greg]

Thanks for the settings Phil..I'll try tonight...

[Trevor]

That’s a fantastic image something to aspire too, I cant even find the gain let alone turn it up.

[geppetto]

but looking at the rings , what do u think , is this poor conditions or maybe collimation, hope you dont mind me saying this .

Course not Rog it's folk like yourself with experience that help push the rest of us

up the learning curve. Any suggestions or comments you make are gratefully received mate.

Think I can rule out collimation Rog as I "cheshired" it to death before starting the sessions.

Also, the scope had cooled for a couple of hours.

Conditions were not as good as the night before but I think I might get an improvement

by sorting out the duff frames and doing a more calculated stacking session.

I was excited to see the image last night and just dumped all the AVI's together.

Another thing, my barlow is just a run of the mill one which doesn't help and at some point I might look into

getting an imagemate or somesuch.

Sure is aversatile scope though the 200mm F6 8)

Thanks again for your help and encouragement Rog

[mightymonoped]

Don't know how I missed this

Excellent job indeed 8) 8) 8)

Tony

[geoff_k]

Excellent work on both planets. The Saturn is good and the Venus one is equally so.

Geoff

[FLO]

Hey Phil, hasn't anyone told you that your not supposed to produce images that good from affordable kit :nono: