Saturn from last night

[Sam]

Hi,

This is Saturn from last night. I spent most of the time just looking at it through various eyepieces - simply amazing jewel! 550 from 1127 frames stacked in Registax and a little further work in Gimp 2.2.

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cheers

Sam

[Sam]

Oh and here's my rough attempt a getting some moons as well:

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Four of them I reckon.

Sam

[supernova]

MR L Bucket that pic of saturn is very good you should be very pleased with it.

Well done Sam.

[Cloudwatcher]

I thought that a nice sharp image rather spoilt by the colour. Do you have the use Photoshop? If so try making a copy and applying Auto Levels. Overlay on the original and fiddle with the opacity level. The result has a much more realistic look to it and can be worked on with levels,curves,burn and dodge tools bring out a bit of detail.

Hope you don't object but here's one I did earlier,as they say.

This was a bit of a rush job but I hope it shows what I mean.

Cheers

CW

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[radioactive]

nice job you know I feel for the guys who are just coming into this hobby when say 2/3 years ago Saturn looked so stunning of course its getting worse all the time so at least something still worth a look

[Sam]

CW,

Thanks for the tips. I only have Gimp 2.4. I made a duplicate layer and stretched the green and blue channels then merged the two layers with opacity at about 60%. Here's the result:

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Thanks heaps for your advice I think it looks heaps better now!

cheers

Sam

[jgs001]

Sam, Nicely done. Good image.

[LaVey]

good image... was wondering about the colour thing myself

[Cloudwatcher]

Thanks heaps for your advice I think it looks heaps better now!

Sure does. 8) An excellent result and I bet you had fun doing it too.

Cheers

CW