First light Planetary for QHY5 - Saturn

[Roy Batty]

Taken tonight using x2 barlow on the C8-N, 800 odd frames from a 1000 frame AVI. I used registax 4 to process this one instead of 5 as the result seemed to turn out better in 4, don't ask me why:icon_scratch:. I think you can see some nice banding coming through though, so I'm well pleased with this first go at Saturn with the QHY5.

cheers

Keith

Saturn08May09.tif

[dark knight]

lovely stuff Keith, a good first light then..

[Kokatha man]

Yes, for some reason my pc has started opening all the S/gL images in p/shop.....but it allowed me to increase the scale of your Saturn there Neil, which it handled very well.....a nice first shot with the camera - it's allways good to get something worthwhile with the first use of new gear....!

[Lester]

Thats the first planet I have seen taken with the QHY5 camera. Very nice.

[Kai]

What software did you use to capture Keith ??

[beamish]

great little planetary cam isn't it ?? Nice one Keith !!

Karlo

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Keith

Peter...

[drummerp]

Great image mate.

[Roy Batty]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Kai - the capture software used is QGVideo beta

regards

Keith

[wenjha]

QHY5 is mono CCD right?

do you take this with RGBL filters?

[Roy Batty]

QHY5 is mono CCD right?

do you take this with RGBL filters?

Actually the QHY5 is a CMOS, but yes its mono chip. The colour is achieved through the QGVideo capture application - there is a colour camera tick option which I think applies an artifical colour matrix to the data with the option to adjust the RGB levels of the streamed data.

cheers

Keith

[ashenlight]

Nice one, love the colour of it. Sharp too

Amanda

[Psychobilly]

I'm still trying to get my head around the Color from the Mono (and non Bayered) chip... without the use of extenal filters.... Help someone - please....

[beamish]

I'll have to try that, I imagined that it'd be for the colour QHY5 .

Karlo

[Roy Batty]

I'll have to try that, I imagined that it'd be for the colour QHY5 .

Karlo

I'm a bit non-plused myself - there's both mono and colour QHY5's but it looks like the QGVideo app can't distinguish between them:icon_scratch:

Does anyone know if the AVI file format can be flagged as mono or RGB?

While pondering on this one here's the image a bit bigger from a re-stack whilst playing about with K3CCD and registax 5...

Keith

[daveslk]

nice image. can even make out the cassini division... :-)

[PaulB]

You've got me puzzled also. I'll have to give this a try when I am out side imaging Jupiter with my QHY5 and Orion (UK) SPX 200-1200.

I have one possible explanation, it could be the same process used with this camera, as is used to convert old Black and White movies into colour? I don't know the technical stuff.