Saturn April 12th

[Space Cowboy]

Took this at 11.50pm Saturn was only about 25-6 degrees elev. Seeing was not great but hair drier worked a treat on secondary else this would have been barley visible.

f26.4

[Clayton]

Nice work Stuart

Looks like you captured the storm activity and a nice job with the Crepe Ring.

Quite a bit clipped in the highlights though which I think has washed out a bit of colour detail in the planet.

And I thought Saturn was faint for you guys

[starnut]

That's very good

[neil phillips]

Nice work Stuart

Looks like you captured the storm activity and a nice job with the Crepe Ring.

Quite a bit clipped in the highlights though which I think has washed out a bit of colour detail in the planet.

And I thought Saturn was faint for you guys

best thing is to saturate before raising levels Rob.But thats a fair stab with the likely less than good conditions

[AztecastroMcJ]

Nice 1 Stuart, decent result with low alt

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks for your comments guys! Doesn't look clipped on my screen Rob Histo was just under 50% during capture.

[neil phillips]

Just looked at another i took two days ago, no better than yours stuart. Conditions are not the best in the uk at the mo. if they happen thats the time to catch one. need good trans and calmish air.

[Space Cowboy]

Yeah think I will have to settle for 15fps with the powermate or go down to a 3x + extension for 30fps. Max gain is just too noisy with the dfk.

This was taken using 30fps. Obviously did not hlep my cause shooting at a low alt....well lower alt, Saturn is low anyway lol.

Seeing was not too bad just after I cleared the secondary of dew but after a couple of mins it went pear shaped.

[neil phillips]

what barlow did you use then thats the powermate at f26.4 i assume. youve downsized too then, is all that correct

[Space Cowboy]

Sorry yes this was using the powermate @f26, the image is actual size. 3x + ext should be around f24.

[Space Cowboy]

Another version using just 500 frames from 10000. This one not as bright.

[Clayton]

This one looks too faint Stuart:rolleyes: (sorry! Just kidding)

To clear up my earlier comment I think it was just the rings that were clipped in the highlights(check the histo ), and if the histo was 50% at capture then it was most likely a result of processing. More to the point is the fact that I don't really care too much I've done it myself plenty of times. I simply like to tell people in case their monitor is set too dark without them realizing. Different if every image was clipped, but most of yours are very nicely done

[Space Cowboy]

No worries Rob! I'd messed with the contrast on the first one to bring out the crepe. To be honest the whole avi was pretty crepe.

[si@nite]

Very nice Stuart. SIMON.

[bigal1]

Nice work Stuart a very nice image you got there especially with the altitude its at , its so low i'm not going to catch it this year from my location .

[Space Cowboy]

Cheers Simon!

Thanks Alan, just been looking at Stellarium....over the next 10 years its going to be even lower.