Saturn May 31st

[Space Cowboy]

Forecast said clear sky but at 10.30pm it was cloudy and windy but then the cloud broke and I started to image. Seeing was terrible Saturn waving like a crazed flag so I decided to take a colour and ir shot and then pack up but during the IR capture seeing suddenly improved to be as stable as I've seen for some time.

Below are 2 quick processes, straight colour with strong wavelets as I like the globe detail and IR/Colour combo (more sublte waveelts on this one).

1.5x drizzle 3x tv & QHY colour/mono.

Colour:

Colour/IR

[Baselessum]

Nice pictures, I like the first colour shot. She poked her head out from the clouds just to tempt me last night for about 10 minutes then clouds for the rest of the night. Well done

[Atlas]

Terrific shot Cowboy. Nice job.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks guys! Here is a polar projection of the colour image. I reckon i've captured the hex.

[Ewan]

Nice going there Stuart, seeinv has been terrible latley,for most in uk, might have something to do with being european monsoon time.

The 2nd shot is clearer & more defined without a doubt, i had a go last night but very humid & patchy cloud meant i got to bed earlier than i would have liked.

Meant yo be clear down South tonight we will see.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Ewan yes the weather is very unpredictable but last night proved to me that its always worth trying because for a few mins seeing can suddenly change.

Here is a more subtle version of the above colour shot. This is the kind of wavelets I prefer and will be using with Jupiter but don't always show enough global detail on Saturn at 25 degrees. I've downscaled from the original 1.5x drizzle.

[t_ilan_s]

Wow! great Images.

I prefer the second image which is less noisier and got better details.

[SnakeyJ]

Stunning image Stuart and very nice processing - seeing stayed poor and there was quite a lot of thin cloud down at this end of the country, but glad to see you got some good seeing and the results look excellent. Nice to see the WinJupos polar projection as well.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks llan & Jake. Splitting the image into RGB I realized blue was terrible and red particularly good so I've done an RRGB version which is much sharper without forcing wavelets too much :

[broca]

Well done!

[Olorin]

Hi Stuart, great job on these images, I tend to agree with Ilan the IR/color image is sharper.

BTW if you stretch the wavelets you can use just a bit of Gaussian blur (in GIMP or PS) to reduce the noise without effecting the details.

Dror

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks again fellas!

[si@nite]

I love the colour balance on your images Stuart, you've really set the bar on Saturn this year!

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Simon! Hope people got out tonight because it was the best session of 2013 for Saturn!!!

[SnakeyJ]

Looking shakey down here with the wind and seeing - but I did manage to push F25 for 6000 frames on red (though I may never publish) and just doing my first ever DSO, M13 with the qhy5l-II

[robbie c]

Great images there Stuart love the second one looks a little bit more sharper then the first but the first is still a great image

[Alan]

I think this is your bet yet this time around Stuart, especially the last one which is a cracker !