Saturn in visible light and IR after collimation touch-up

[BGazing]

Well, after some Metaguide treatment (awesome programme, by the way), my C8 got itself new prescription glasses. Surprisingly, or not, the results in mediocre to meh seeing have been very close to results in much better conditions, despite having much less material to derotate and using shorter exposures (10-12ms). First photo with Tethys, Encelladus (really dim inbetween) and Dione, this time I managed to lift them properly, with adequate variation in brightness. The last is the first IR attempt, Saturn was at approx 25 degrees but used 610 filter on top of ADC and PO 462 mono camera.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by BGazing

[Kon]

Excellent set of images. Nice Cassini division. It seems collimation was spot on. It's meant to be really good weather without Jetstream tonight and tomorrow night .

[BGazing]

4 hours ago, Kon said:

Excellent set of images. Nice Cassini division. It seems collimation was spot on. It's meant to be really good weather without Jetstream tonight and tomorrow night .

Thank you. Could be good in Wiltshire, here we are enjoying a bit of a rough patch. I am off to Greece. On the plus side, I am driving, so I might pack. On the minus side, projected strong winds (darned meltemi). Shame...planets are much higher down there.

[Space Cowboy]

Very nice! Banding on the globe clearly visible.

[si@nite]

Great set of clean captures well done!

[morimarty]

They are excellent Saturn Images. I like the lift in brightness you have given them. They look very clean and detailed.

[BGazing]

Thank you all. Not sure what is the right way to go, here's the same night, best 6 min stack video derotated and processed in more or less the same way. You be the judge...

[Kon]

New image looks much sharper and better banding on the planet.

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured 

[Pete Presland]

Interesting to hear about Metaguide, not heard of it before. Was you doing a star test before or using a collimator?

[Maurizio83]

Very interesting sw. Thank you for sharing your experience.