A few Saturns from last night

[geoff_k]

Almost gave up, but there was a window of clear sky around midnight.

Took a succession of images to see what I could get.

The top two are the same except that the one on the right is processed in Registax 3 rather than 4.

Best of 1200 frames in each case, ATIK camera, Baader IR filter, 4 x Imagemate Amplifier some post-tweaking in Photoshop.

[CELESCOPE]

nicely done Geoff, a pleasure to see all these mate .

Rog

[zetajanus]

Always a pleasure to see Saturn in spite of the ring which disappear...

[JCJC]

Really nice Saturns Geoff.

Interesting, the dramatic difference in processing between Registax 3 and 4.

Jordan

[Andromeda]

always lovely to see saturn even thoght the ring is gone

[jonbarr87]

Beautiful banding on those.

Question about planetary imaging.... I notice the best images are usually 1000+ frames... do you just take a video and then stack or just that many individual?

[barkis]

Great captures there Geoff, the rings still have a great effect even though they are closed up.

What scope did you use the Atik with.?

Ron:)

[Ant]

Nice images Geoff. Saturn does look strange with her rings all closed!

Jon, imaging on the planets and moon is usually taken with some form of webcam, there are also other camera as well (DMK's and Luminera's[sp]).

You take a movie with several thousand frames, then run it through a peice of stacking software (Registax is one) - this uses just the good frames and discards the bad ones, the effect can be quite dramtic.

Ant

[jonbarr87]

Ok thats what I thought. Thanks Ant!