Saturnian System

[MarsG76]

Hi All,

Sharing with you my latest image of Saturn which I'm quite happy with how it turned out with my average C8 telescope.

The night when I imaged this was a particularly clear and still night which delivered views in the eyepiece that were sharp as a tack all the way up to 406X magnification... I could not let such a clear night go by without imaging and so I decided to push the telescope magnification as far as I could.

I imaged this scene with my C8 SCT using a number of exposures, cameras and focal lengths.
I imaged this image using my Skyris 618C at f30, and through my DMK21au618 at both f30 and f50, 10 videos 90 seconds long at 60fps (f30)/30fps (f50) by using my 3X Barlow and 5X Powermates.
I also captured 10 videos through my IRPass685 filter at f30, although the signal was quite dim and the most I could run the capture at was 15fps for 2 minutes per video at maximum gain. The moons were imaged at f10, 15 fps also max gain.

I processed all data separately, than scaled down the f50 image to the f30 size and "screen" combined those two images aligned images together, this has revealed a little bit more detail within Saturn that was visible individually. I used this as luminance with the Skyris 618C stack as the color data, effectively creating a LRGB image.
I combined this image with the scaled up wider moon processed stack.

Clear Skies,
Mariusz

[Kon]

Stunning image! Did you use the IR as luminance? It's looking very sharp.

[MarsG76]

1 hour ago, Kon said:

Stunning image! Did you use the IR as luminance? It's looking very sharp.

Yes, but only with a transparency of 35%. This is the level I was happy with before the image started looking "over cooked".

Edited October 8, 2022 by MarsG76

[Paul M]

Just marvelous. I'd already spotted this in your album.

I'm a bit lost with your equipment and processing but that doesn't affect my appreciation of your fine image.

So nice to see all those moons getting in on the act. A sublime image!

[skyhog]

That's an excellent image, well done. One of the best posted this season in my opinion. 

[geoflewis]

Beatifully done Mariusz

[JeremyS]

Amazing 👍🏻

[Pete Presland]

Superb image, so good to see the moons on show.