Saturn 8th March C9.25

[Alan]

A clear sky at last ! best effort from last night in poor-average hazy seeing resulting in slow shutter of 1/8s and reduced resolution.

C.9.25, F25, 250 frames from 850 processed in R5 and Astra Image.

Thanks for looking...

Alan

[bigal1]

Very nice image Alan storm showing up well .

[oldfruit]

That`s come out really well considering the conditions last night. Great capture.

[Space Cowboy]

Very nice! Another reason why I need a DBK!

[philsparrow]

Very very nice

Phil

[mario11]

well done!!!

[AztecastroMcJ]

Very nice Alan

esp for so few frames

James

[Gadget]

Thats a great image Alan

Kevin

[neil phillips]

Nice image, it sounds like your corrector was dewed over, a cool blow dryer works for that, though your neibours might object, thats way to slow to get a sharp image, when its less dewy try to aim for 30 fps, at 1/30secs exposure, it really makes a big difference getting 11 thousand frames in 6 mins, to the final stack quality/ even a dimish image will likely look better, at that frame rate and speed, and the image can be brightened post processing. i was out on the 8th moisure was bad trans not so, your location might have been worse, but correcters dew up fast and will kill your exposure

[Alan]

Thanks to you all for your comments. Cloudy here tonight so no chance for another attempt yet.

I take your comments about the slow shutter speed Neil and I usually aim for around 30 frames at 1/20s - 1/30s (worked well for Jupiter), but the image at F25 was simply too dim due to the dense moist atmosphere found locally at Saturn's elevation. I had the dew pretty much under control but it may have been partly to blame.

Still some time left to get better results, weather permitting !

Regards,

Alan

[Rob]

Super colour.. very nice image

[neil phillips]

Thanks to you all for your comments. Cloudy here tonight so no chance for another attempt yet.

I take your comments about the slow shutter speed Neil and I usually aim for around 30 frames at 1/20s - 1/30s (worked well for Jupiter), but the image at F25 was simply too dim due to the dense moist atmosphere found locally at Saturn's elevation. I had the dew pretty much under control but it may have been partly to blame.

Still some time left to get better results, weather permitting !

Regards,

Alan

Yeah its true, ive seen local conditions vary quite a lot as far as mist is concerned, but thought i would mention the corrector as there was tons of moisure wasnt there, it was freezing solid on my tube. But sounds like you had a eye on that problem, so agreed your local mist was likely heavier, it doesnt take a lot either with saturns brightness does it

[johnh]

A fine result Alan.

John.

[Smooth]

Great image that!