UK Mars & Saturn

[skybadger]

My time spent on Saturday 29th round about 11-12pm BST resulted in these images:

Both are taken using the NA140SSF with televue 5* powermate (~f/27)and astronomik filters. Mars is Red and Saturn is L. Mars blue channel wasn't worth keeping, the frame rate on the ZWC120 was too low and the image so poor. G was better, L better still and R best. What is the best opportunity for synthetic here - re-use L as blue ?

Both acquired in FireCapture for 9o seconds using image stabilisation and stacked in registax. I tried an alternate path of Pipp + AS2 but AS2 put some horrible artifacts around the limb that Registax didn't.

I was surprised at how much detail came through on Mars and how poor Saturn turned out to be but it was really low.

regs

Mike

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Pretty good as they are so low in the sky

[laudropb]

Nice images for these difficult targets