Saturn May 1st

[Space Cowboy]

A very quick IR/Colour process from last night in decent seeing but poor transparancy. My best images this year I reckon. Lots of data to put together so expect to improve on this one :

QHY colour & mono IR : (still struggling with colour balance on the QHY)

[JamesF]

We shall see how the processing goes with mine, but I have a feeling the sky was better on Monday night than Tuesday.

James

[Steve Ward]

Nice shot ,

Last night was fantastic here for a couple of hours , just plodding through 60Gb of footage now , I'm very , very happy so far . . .

[theo]

Great capture Stuart!!

Look forward to seeing the results of your other data.

For my location conditions were better Monday night. Have still to process these but will be just IR data again. Will hopefully be getting decent filters in the next few weeks.

Regards

Pete

[Space Cowboy]

Didn't get out Monday as was still feeling the effects of imaging Saturday night lol Darn it sounds like I missed out. Anyhow when I've made proper full sized stacks (this was from 2 small avis) I'm hoping to have some decent shots especially straight colour ones. Its interesting to see in better seeing how the colour shots compare better to the IR.

The sky was bright orange last night and the colour runs were 31fps at max gain compared to 42fps Saturday night.

[cgarry]

Interesting that you had decent seeing but poor transparency Stuart, I had crystal clear skies with terrible seeing.

Steve, out of interest what times were you good conditions? I was out between 12 and 1 and Saturn was flapping about like a flag in the wind and I wonder if that was just down to local conditions.

Cheers,

Chris

[si@nite]

Nice Stuart, looks like the new approach is starting to come together now!

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Simon I see you got some nice shots last night. I could do with your colour balance.

Here is a straight colour shot with the QHY colour cam. Processed without and with drizzle :

[cgarry]

I think the first of the straight colour shots is the best of the bunch with the north pole showing a nice hexagon shape.

Keep 'em coming!

Cheers,

Chris

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Chris yes I gave that one some extra sharpening to see how much of the hex would appear. Just annoyed with myself for not getting to grips with the colour balance. I was worried the steady seeing wouldn't last so did not do a test stack.

[Space Cowboy]

Here is a straight IR image using 1.5x drizzle :

[cgarry]

Here is a straight IR image using 1.5x drizzle :

Very nice! If only all the channels were that sharp...

[Space Cowboy]

Very true Chris but the gap between IR and colour was much smaller last night, wish now I'd tried a straight mono shot too.

Here is another repro of the colour shot with drizzle but different wavelets..think I prefer this one.

[theo]

Excellent Stuart. Definitely your best Saturn so far I would say.

Nice one!!

Pete

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks again Pete! Gonna drag my tired butt outside again tonight the sky looks so good with possible fog forecast later which suggests very calm air.

[Alan]

I think that last shot is the best Stuart and very good it is too. Hope you have more success tonight. Cloudy here tonight but tommoro looks promising so I may get a couple to add to the collection.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Alan! Went out again last night with the sky crystal clear so hopes were high that if seeing was like the night before this could be "the" night. Alas sod's law meant seeing was awful!

[bm1980]

Very nice captures there stuart,

Regards

Ben