Saturn from 18.03.13 (awful seeing conditions)

[lensman57]

Hi,

I was bored and depressed beacuse of the "nice" spring weather we are having so I processed a single file that I took on the 18th . The seeing conditions were terrible plus added haze and low thin clouds so I only took a 72 seconds avi about 2200 frames of which the majority were a total loss.

This sad effort is the result of about 250 frames. In fact I have to be honest that it was not a good night for mefor imaging as when I managed to capture both the M81 and M82 in the the same frame ( my first DSO capture ) with great excitment only to be cursing myself later that day because I forgot to adjust the focus on the Scope for the Canon 1000d. Sorry if this effort caused any offence.

Regards,

A.G

[boss hogg]

Good pic, one day I might be able to get one as good !

hope the weather improves for opposition next month

[faulksy]

thats not bad considering the conditions.

[Pete Presland]

i have seen and produced a lot worse, it is not too bad an image. you can only work with the conditions that present when you are imaging, but it does make for an interesting contrast when do have good seeing conditions!

[alanjgreen]

I was out that same night - looks pretty much like what I saw = good pic

[Mez7000]

Great image - I'd love to even get anything close to this

[lensman57]

I was out that same night - looks pretty much like what I saw = good pic

Hi to you all,

Many thanks for your encouragement, this was only my second attempt with Saturn but I I expected a lot more from myself because I did manage 4 different sessions with Jupiter. The capture is very noisy, not helped by the fact that I seem not to have set the exposure and gain correctly. I must have really been careless on the night. I was about to just dump it in the bin but decided to process it, it does actually show a little more deatil once viewd as a Tiff in CS2, a little is lost during the jpeg process I guess, there are hints of the suttle colouring in the bands but that is about it I am afraid. Hoping to get better in the next session. I also really do not know how much should I realistically expect from the 127 MAK, I think the problem is the operator and to some extent the seeing conditions not the resolving power of the MAK, so I would be grateful if anyone could post a capture just to show the capibility of the scope. As a side question, I have aquired a high speed mono camera for guiding purposes, would there be a significant improvement if I used a tri colour capture method using filters given the usually short window of apportunity for the capture.

Many thanks and regards,

A.G

A.G

Many thanks and regards