Yet another Saturn

[blinky]

This is the first time I have used my DSI for planetry imaging and I must say I am quite impressed :shock: I focussed on Saturn and clicked to auto stack it, if the quality was above 80%. Left it for an hour and it had stacked over 900. The image below is the Light and Lum channels combined, bit of unsharp mask applied to the Lum channel and a tiny bit of stretching.

What D'ya think?

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[jgs001]

Craig, I like that. That's very nice

[Cloudwatcher]

That is a smart little image that includes visible crepe ring by the looks of it.

A five minute job in photoshop will add a bit more depth. Just make a new layer of Saturn and apply Auto colour to it then reduce the opacity value till your happy with the result and merge the two. Sharpen and blur to taste.

Cheers

CW

Whoops! forgot to post the image!

[blinky]

Need to emeber that for next time CW

[dogfish]

Nice image Craig and nice play CW.

Cheers, Martin

[lunator]

Craig

For a 1st go that is very good.

The processing of an image is an art in itself

Looking forward to more Saturn pics

Cheers

Ian

[themos]

That was your FIRST?!!!

[Sam]

That's a great shot Craig, well done, especially on it being the first for Saturn!

[blinky]

This is my first Saturn using the Meade DSI, I have used a TouCam before now. The DSI gives a smaller image but it does seem to be a bit sharper.