Saturn 15th March

[johnh]

SPX350 F34.5, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB. - above avg seeing. 1445hrs UT 15.3.13

Got my first chance after 5 months of wind and rain here in Brisbane. With above avg seeing I got my best image at 56 degrees alt, as Saturn rose the seeing got worse and cloud patches came over but no wind for once. I used Autostakkert2 which seems to do the best job, I cannot get WinJupos to auto detect for some reason, it worked for Jupiter but not for Saturn. Hopefully weather will settle as we move into Autumn here, I still get bitten by midges as I forgot to use my spray.

Regards, John.

[alanjgreen]

John - Great pictures! (too cold for midges up here!)

[Grotemobile]

Wow, what a picture.No chance here for

a little while.Lashing down with rain

here, on the south coast.Whats new.

Steve.

[Freddie]

Nice pic there John. WinJupos doesn't have an auto option for Saturn so must be aligned manually.

[Space Cowboy]

Great shots John!

[neil phillips]

Hi John welcome back, Good to see you posting Saturn again. Very nice images there.

So was this not done on winjupos then ? if not what was your capture times, as you know 3x the amount of capture times can be used if winjupos is used.

Havent had a great time imaging myself it seems for ages ( even when it has been clear ) ups and downs you know the score. 5 months of wind and rain in Brisbane, thats a long spell John.

getting a 12" skywatcher next week, not sure if it will be good enough on planets. But ive seen some lovely stuff with these mass produced optics. I live in hope

Lovely shots again

[si@nite]

Wonderful shots John!

[theo]

Excellent captures there John.

Pete

[Ewan]

Very nice John.

[FranckiM06]

Great shot John and I'm happy for you that you got this beautiful result on Saturn. It was so long time than we didn't see any image of your work that now I'm very happy.

Now, I'm waiting about the next

Franck

[stellawolf]

Very nice images well done

[sologuitarist61]

Nice images John!

[johnh]

Thanks everyone, I went for 100 sec captures but will give WJ another try just did not have time to fiddle with it. Amazing how I remembered to plug things in but had trouble connecting to my EQ6 which after fiddling miraculously mended itself. I did image meteors in December and got two mediocre Jupiters but cloud meant an early pack up. Some nights would have a clear twilight and as I set the CCD's up cloud would cover the sky, after the 10th time of doing this I gave up.

If I manually align the RGB I hope WJ will oblige, longer captures will certainly give a smoother result especially for IR which shows better N Pole ring detail.

My cat keeps climbing on the Laptop once she nearly posted a message.

John.

[johnh]

Had a go at WJ, is it supposed to rotate the equator horizontally like with Jupiter? I completed an LRGB using red as lum and it does seem smoother compared with my original. Second image is WJ process.

John.

[neil phillips]

Had a go at WJ, is it supposed to rotate the equator horizontally like with Jupiter? I completed an LRGB using red as lum and it does seem smoother compared with my original. Second image is WJ process.

John.

For the ultimate John i would have thought 6mins per channel would give the best results, but WJ will obviously have to be used. Not sure if youve seen Darryls thoughts on this, but i found it helpful

WinJUPOS TutorialSmall.zip

[Ewan]

For the ultimate John i would have thought 6mins per channel would give the best results, but WJ will obviously have to be used. Not sure if youve seen Darryls thoughts on this, but i found it helpful

WinJUPOS TutorialSmall.zip

I have just followed that tutorial & it works a treat on my previous Jupiter stacks, very handy thanks Neil (i didn't realise you could stack 3 of each channels)

[neil phillips]

I have just followed that tutorial & it works a treat on my previous Jupiter stacks, very handy thanks Neil (i didn't realise you could stack 3 of each channels)

Its a great tutorial. Thanks must go to Darryl. Ewan.

I can only wonder what good de rotaion would do for Johns amazing work. Only 100 secs on this capture, yet its absolutely stunning, Hope the tute is useful