First Go At Saturn With The NS8 GPS & Digicam

[dazza1639]

Here is my first attempt at Saturn with the NS8 GPS & Sony DSC-W1 digital camera.

70 1/15 sec exposures at iso 400 through a 12mm eyepiece stacked in registax and tweeked in photoshop

It looks a bit blurred and has far too much noise any help would be appreciated

Darren

[geppetto]

Nice one Darren.

It looks a bit blurred and has far too much noise any help would be appreciated

A lot more frames 500+ and better seeing not that you can alter the latter

[dazza1639]

Thanks Phil Seeing last night was amazing even thought the sky looked pants (lots of sky glow) as for the number of images I will take a lot more when I can get the Toucam out last night was just an experiment really to see what I could get using the digicam & bracket take these images in 5 image bursts took about an hour so 500+ using this method would take a lot longer than Saturn is actually in the sky.

Darren

[daz]

There is a lot of murk in the atmosphere at the moment..

I'd also reduce the size of the base images before stacking. I assume that they are JPG's and not RAW images?

[dazza1639]

I've taken some of the poorer images and re-stacked them I think its improved a bit.

Darren

[lunator]

Dazza

I would take the saturation down a bit and it may bring out more detail

Glad to see some else joining the experimentors.

Cheers

Ian

[barkis]

That is quite a good effort Darren. I am not an expert by a long shot, so what I say is guesswork based on what I am looking at.

The image seems to lack a bit of depth, and as suggested, more frames may be needed to beef it up a bit.

The most important thing is, you are doing it, and the more you do it the better you get.

Thanks Ron.