Saturn 19th March 2011

[prbaxter]

Taken with SPC900 webcam

Approx 400 stacked frames from a 47s avi.

manual tracking.

Stacked and processed in Registax. Exposure levels brought out a little in Photoshop.

Those last 2 wavelet settings in Registax are awesome.

[red dwalf]

good effort. did you use a barlow ?

[prbaxter]

yes, 2x barlow. This is about as good as it gets from my 150P. I'm in the market for a 3x or 5x barlow. I reckon that would help me get a little more detail.

[monkey_boy]

Great image.

[cgarry]

Nice detail there, good work.

I have read that you can barlow you scope to F/20 to F/30 for webcam work. I use a x2.5 barlow on my F/10 scope and it works well. So I would think a x5 barlow on your F/5 scope should be ideal.

Cheers,

Chris

Cheers,

Chris

[prbaxter]

here's an enlarged copy:

[jayjt29]

Very nice indeed! Did you manually track Saturn? I only ask as i have the same scope and took delivery of the SPC900 the other day

Jay

[jayjt29]

Sorry just read the post again, i see you manually tracked! Even better

Jay

[prbaxter]

I now have a RA motor drive!!!

[jayjt29]

Is on my list might order next week.

Jay

[prbaxter]

Cool. Just ordered a 5x barlow so will have another go when it arrives with the motor drive. :-)

[Taff]

Nice capture of saturn' nice colour.Mark

[mario11]

maybe to much colour

good job anyway

[prbaxter]

yeah possibly. this was the original pre-processing:

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-planetary/135023-saturn-1st-attempt-webcam.html

[beamish]

Great !

Tracking and barlow will certainly help capture the Casssini ring-look fwd to more

[prbaxter]

The Revelation 5x Barlow has arrived. First impressions, it looks a much better build than the standard SW 2x Barlow so fingers crossed for a clear weekend!