Saturn 21-June RGB

[Olorin]

Went out again Friday evening to image Saturn.

This will probably be one of the lasts Saturn's images for this opposition for me as my view is mostly eastwards...

Taken at f/25 (x5 powermate) with rather high gamma (50% as suggested in CN by ZZ).

conditions were 4-5/10.

Thanks for looking

Dror

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice indeed.

[cassiewoofer]

Beautiful!...... 8 inch, is that guided and video'd and then regi- stacked?

How many images

I'm just learning about imaging.... currently building dobs.

[SnakeyJ]

Congratulations Dror - best Saturn at 8" I've seen and some very nice detail comming out in that. I'd been told that F16-17 was probably optimum with this CMOS and the 200P, but there's no argument that its working very well at F25/5000mm in moderate seeing - love to see what you can get in optimum conditions.

[si@nite]

Nice work Dror well done, only cloud here so very little chance of any imaging this end!

[t_ilan_s]

Stunning result, very clear and detailed image!

[DrRobin]

Fantastic image again Dror. Forecast is for clear sky tonight so I am hoping to have another go, but I also think it will be the last.

Robin

[Space Cowboy]

Thats a very impressive shot for the seeing Dror! Your RGB setup is clearly producing the goods. What elevation was this?

[Ewan]

Nice capture Dror, soon be time for Jupiter though so that should keep you busy :-)

[Stargazer33]

Ditto the above posts Dror - very nice capture!

[Olorin]

thanks everyone.

@cassiewoofer - I have an EQ5 mount with motors so this is guided (but very poorly manual intervention is always needed) the capture is around 4000 frame in 3 minutes for each channel and stacking 50% with AS!2. i use registax only for the wavelets

@Stuart elevation of Saturn during this image was ~45 degrees

Thanks again

Dror

[yelsac]

Brilliant pics, just looked at your website, the animations are great especially the 3.5 hour Jupiter vid

The detail is so good it looks like a much bigger scope awesome!!

[beamish]

Nice work there Dror !!

[JamesF]

That's a lovely image.

James

[Pete Presland]

excellent sharp image, very nicely done.

[stargazer1960]

Very nice image