Saturn at last !

[leemanley]

After what seems like a lifetime of faffing about, I've finally got something that vaguely resembles the ringed beauty.

200PDS, HEQ5pro, Opticstar AG130m, 3xED barlow, 90 sec avi via Sharpcap 2, PIPP and AutoStakkert!2


Have given up on the Opticstar camera, and have just rigged up the Canon with barlow to retry capturing it and make it lots bigger. All being good I'll get another go tonight.

Cheers, Lee


 

[Leveye]

Well done! Both Mars and Saturn looked amazing last night. So bright!

[paulyg]

Well done.

Seems like everyone was imaging Saturn last night!

[Pete Presland]

congratulations on your 1st Saturn capture!

[lloydy81]

Well done !!

[leemanley]

Cheers all !

[Stargazer33]

Yes, well done Lee! The first time I tried to image Saturn I couldn't even get it onto the camera sensor. I must have "faffed" about for an hour or more and in the end I gave up.

I have a better technique now and so my head doesn't hurt so much these days!

Good luck with the DSLR. Don't forget to keep the shutter speed up. Darker is better as you can bring up the brightness/detail in post production. If you burn out the image to start with, there is no way you will get any detail out of the planet.

[purdo]

Well done, you must be well pleased.

[Ganymede12]

Congrats, you've captured the rings beautifully! 

[cockney]

nice one i was out the same night and got some good images of saturn to..well done

[leemanley]

I've just come in from a top night. I got the Canon with a 3xedbarlow rigged up to the 200pds and managed to get a load of 2 -3 min captures, mostly in crop mode.
The results are starting to look ok, I'm running the .mov's through PIPP before AutoStakkert!2.
Will post the results in the morning as my eyes are now on stalks !!!

[leemanley]

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check this out, a bit better than last nights attempt, so so chuffed with this, also, I've got loads more BETTER data to get through

[Atreta]

very good image, did you use eyepiece projection?

[leemanley]

No, I had a the Canon fixed up directly on the 3xbarlow, it was quite a creation !

[David_Pickles]

The latest capture is great with lots of detail - good job! Have you tried balancing the colour to reduce the blue tinge (I would use the colour balance option in Registax and select auto-balance) - you'll get a much more natural looking image

[leemanley]

Hi Dave, and thanks.
I used RGB align and shifted the blue channel over as much as I could, this seems to be the best I can get out of the data so far.
Cheers Lee

[Astrosurf]

Excellent job! I assume your camera is unmodded? I had to give up planetary with my modded one as it was awful. I'm jealous!

Alexxx

[leemanley]

yes its unmodded, for now.....................
spent all this morning reading up on performing it myself !