My first real Jupiter and Saturn - help needed!

[Helen]

Well, after much frustration with getting connections and software working, and then being peripatetic (not easy with a NS8!) around the garden to actually get saturn and then jupiter in view, I managed a few avis. I used Martin's primer as my starting point (Thanks Martin!).

Here are the results of my processing. I'm not very impressed! (B&W is, as everyone told me, so much easier to process!).

100 sec on 10fps with NS8, toucam and 2xbarlow.

Colours don't look right, and not much detail... but apart from that....

Any suggestions on what to do differently in either capture or processing would be VERY welcome!

Thanks

Helen

[GazOC]

Jupiter looks very good to me Helen, esp. with how low down it is.

[George]

Those are pretty good for your first attempt

On the saturn one you need to bring the saturation down a bit cause you lose detail, play around with the sliders. I find just moving until you get a very pale buttery colour seems to bring the best out, you can always fine tune when processing.

Jupiter one looks good, I haven't managed to grab Jupiter yet as it hasn't cleared the roof tops for me

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Very nice Helen, great start there.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[geppetto]

You've done well with those Helen.. 8)

Don't get too hard on yourself about them, conditions

for imaging both planets really are poor at the moment so expectations

should be on the low side...

[Helen]

Thanks for the encouragement guys.

[Helen]

Had another go at the processing of Saturn. Just in Registax, bu using the wavelet settings this time. Is it better??

Helen

[legion48]

Better? That's damn good!

BTW, did you use an filters? IR block?

[Akyra]

I hope I can produce results like this by myself one day, great image Helen!

I got a thirst for imaging now, so I hope you dont mind me playing around with it a little too, just as practice.

[Helen]

Thanks guys

L48 - just an IR filter

Happy for you to play Akyra! I'm finding the processing is really challenging!!

Helen

[Akyra]

I'm finding the processing is really challenging!!

The 'try this then try that' approach is working for me right now

[robindurant]

I had a try with it as well

[MartinB]

That's a great Saturn Helen. Jupiter is just too low to deliver results. Saturn just needs a tweak with the colour balance. Looking good though

[CELESCOPE]

good results Helen , no probs there, processing looks fine , ,

Rog