Saturn in clean air 15th Jan.....

[Kokatha man]

Imaged at home instead of heading out bush this morning, began about 4.30am and ran several sets of rgb's with reasonable onscreen images - but a lot of jumpiness in the feed interspersed with moments of quite good seeing.....

About 5.15am the air became palpably steadier and seeing rose.....the ability to shift focus 40 microns inwards to maximise blue channel focus is something I haven't been able to achieve to sharpen an individual channel from the others for yonks!

We captured through till just before 6.00am and finished off with an ir742nM and then a W47 for the heck of it, just to see what false colour combos we could achieve!

This is a very quick processing.....a lazy man's effort by just bunging the wavelets up in Reggie and then combining in AstraImage and tweaked: I'm fairly tired after little sleep last night, none today and all-day preparatory processing in front of the pc bitmapping and ninoxing all the files for a proper processing later....!

Hopefully I might extract a little more from this or the other captures with my more usual regimen, and I'll post the colour channels and some other filter and combo images tomorrow.....but golly, it's nice to get some good air at home for a change!

[Moonshane]

superb. that's one of the best images I have seen of Saturn.

[beamish]

Best I've seen all season ! I thought your last post was great but this surpasses it !

Thanks for posting KM !!

[Gadget]

Wow that is an amazing image

well done

Kevin

[blinky]

One of the best I have seen of her. I really like the upper blue band, loads of detail.

[perrin6]

drop - dead gorgeous, nice to see detail in the bright belt, is it related to the storm I wonder ?

[dogfish]

As other have said, best of the season. Very nice detail, as Craig pointed out, in the blue coloured belt.

Martin

[jleach29]

I agree with everyone, one of the best I have seen, lots of detail on the planets surface.

[shaunster]

Amazing image really, best ive seen in a while

[brianb]

Oooh, what I'd give for a view like that!

[gost]

Stunning image, makes me even more frustrated over the clouds that won't go away.

[tiwar]

That really is stunning, never seen so much detail on the disc..

[magic77]

WOW...Thats amazing..Nice work..

[Alan]

To add my two penneth .. what a brilliant image Darryl .. such detail on the disc ... makes me want to upgrade my C9.25 to a C11 and move to Oz

Alan

[bigal1]

Amazing image well done

[george7378]

Wow, that's beautiful! I would be very proud of an image like that - just look at the detail in the clouds! I can't wait to get a look at Saturn at 240X when it comes back round.

[Space Cowboy]

Fantastic! Perfection! Inspiring! What a bonus to get the storm on too!

[resonator77]

excellent !!!

[Sierra Golf Mike]

What a stunning image! The detail is absolutely incredible. From my time on this forum that is the best image of Saturn that I have seen.

[astroman001]

Great image, you have captured the dragon storm very well.

[Third rock]

WOW thats amazing welldone

[Neilius]

I love it! Well done imaging there

[space3]

wow thats a serious image, so much detail:headbang:

[stolenfeather]

Remarkable capture! You must be really pleased with that!

Isabelle

[Clayton]

VERY nice Darry, loads of good detail.

Sorry to be so late replying, I've been up at Clare doing you know what

Conditions up there looked OK by eye, but I didn't have any gear with me, and I was too bugrd to care :(