my best Saturn so far

[northcanadian]

Hi all:

Had my best observing and imaging session last night.

I am using a 9.25sct and dbk21, but never could seem to get on with IC Capture...so I tried Sharpcap, which seemed for me to be quite user friendly.

This was a 1000 stack of 3000. I tried the focussing using 400% on liveview. Used these settings (which Sharpcap saved)

15fps, yuy2, exposure 4, brightness 33, hue 189, saturation 228, gamma 54, gain 929.

any suggestions are appreciated (as always)

Cheers

[riklaunim]

Well, try FireCapture which has better support for TIS cameras.

- gamma should be 100 - default value.

- in FC you can record by default in raw non-debayered format and debayer it (make it color) later with better algorithm (in the debayer tool). yuy2 in SharpCap is not the best thing for this camera.

- and if the image is yellowish you can try some color balance in Registax or other image processing app.

[northcanadian]

Thank you....I shall certainly give that a try!

Clear Skies

Cheers

[Freddie]

Looking much better. Glad it's working out for you.

[todd8137]

Have you tried filters,what's you light pol like ?

[northcanadian]

Hi again:

Haven't had a chance yet to try Firecapture. There is not much light pollution here...the only filter I'm using is a uv/ir filter. I do have a set of Celestron filters. Would any of these help?

Thanks again for your suggestions and support

Cheers

[riklaunim]

For planetary imaging light pollution isn't a problem.

[stolenfeather]

Wonderful image! I'm going to try to stack some images myself tonight and hope it works!

Isabelle