Saturn last night

[blinky]

600 frames stacked in Registax. Taken last night with my 8"Newt and ToUCam with a 3X Barlow. After stacking I ran it through NeatImage and had a play with sharpening and blur,levels etc in Photoshop. TBH I just played about with the image till I was happy with it.

Feel free to have a play!

[geoff_k]

Blinky

That's a good effort, especially as conditions are not fantastic right now.

One suggestion is to look at re-aligning the colour channels. you can do this quite easily in Registax if you are using that.

Keep them coming.

Geoff

[geppetto]

Nice one Blinky

Your all set now for when Saturn gets to a better position

and conditions improve (hopefully)

[MartinB]

That is almost a fantastic image Blinky but it just looks a bit wobbly. I wonder if that was introduced during the PS processing. Did you try using the wavelets in Registax, they will do a much better job for you than processing in PS.

[barkis]

That looks great Blinky. I can't comment on whatever techniques you are using. I don't have the experience or knowledge yet. I'll get there one day.

All I can comment on, is what I see in front of me and that is good.

Barkis.

[CELESCOPE]

Well done Blinky . getting there mate , yes a bit wobbly as Martin pointed out , was this due to the wind , hmm maybe not, is,nt the right type of wobble , did u use registax, if not maybe try that and select the best frames and restack again, could improve that a lot, still a good start though

Rog

[blinky]

Thanks fod the comments, I am still getting to grips with registax. It is that that introduced the wobble. The problem is that the AVI has a lot of noise in it (Due to the 3X Barlow being used) and Saturn is a pretty featurless planet, I am unable to find a really good 'bit' to point registax towards for stacking. I just selected two point, one being at eacj end of the rings in the 'hole' between the planet and the ring itself. After stacking the image is a bit noisy especially at the top of the planet and I used the wavelets to sharpen it up a bit. I am also pretty sure I used the realign the colour channels option but just let it decide as I was not sure what I was doing and was not sure if it needed done as its a Newt so there should be no shift?

Anyways I am off to have another play with the AVI and see what I can come up with!

[MartinB]

Set the alignment square on the whole of Saturn, not just a little bit Blinky.