Saturn, June 12th

[mitchelln]

Saturn last night. Seeing was a bit hazy as it's so low. 1200 frames staked taken with QHY5-II C, 4x Powermate and 300P.

[oldpink]

nice considering its position and the bright moon

[mitchelln]

Thanks oldpink. Here's the 2nd one that dropped out of Registax. I think this is going to be the best of the bunch. The QHY5-II is looking to be an excellent planetary camera.

[Andy Milner]

It's a great camera that's a lovely sized image. I really want the powermate as I use a 3x skywatcher barlow on my 200p. I imaged Saturn last night and the main issue i found was the moon washed out the contrast and detail otherwise with perfect et stream conditions it would have been great conditions for imaging.

Here I attach last nights Saturn after stacking in AS!2, wavelets and RGB in Registax6, and processing saturation and contrast in Photoshop.

I think I over cooked exposure.

For reference here is Saturn with no moon on 25th may with ideal conditions. So you can see the moon really affects detail and colour accuracy.

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[Grotemobile]

The difference is  quite noticable.

very good pictures through. Impressed.

Steve.

[toxic]

hope you do'nt mind Andy i had a go at your Saturn because it is really good and looked like there was a bit more detail after a resize and a few tweaks this is it now great capture i wish my captures where that good.

[toxic]

sorry i meant mitchelln not andy 

allthough yours is great as well andy   

[mitchelln]

sorry i meant mitchelln not andy 

allthough yours is great as well andy   

Hehe. Can I ask what did you to the image? Always on the look out for new processing techniques!

[Astrosurf]

Cracking images guys!

[toxic]

Hehe. Can I ask what did you to the image? Always on the look out for new processing techniques!

resized it in paintshop pro to 1200 x 1200 pixel and 2400 dpi then denoised it by 5 percent then used the clarify tool at 5 then color fix and increased saturation ,then in photoshop cs2 use image-apply image then under blending select add at 50 percent then thats it.

[mitchelln]

Thanks for the info. Had a little go myself! Always things to learn with this hobby

[Andy Milner]

Wow! Great processing! I might have to get paint shop pro!

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[mitchelln]

It's a lot cheaper than Photoshop! I'd forgotten how good it was.

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