My first Saturn attempt (kind of)

[JB80]

Ok, this is my first real go at Saturn as the first one was overexposed. I'm having a bit of trouble getting castrator to align my avi fully so have ended up with a much smaller stack than I wanted. Still I'm happy I managed to get something even if it's not as pretty as some of the others.

There is probably loads more stuff I can try anyway but for now here is the first edition

Jarrod

[bigal1]

Great first attempt stick at it

[Space Cowboy]

Good effort! Is saturn moving off screen during capture as this will throw castrator off the scent. I run the avi through vdub removing any off screen frames before putting the avi through castrator.

[JB80]

Thanks guys:)

And yes, I would dare say that Saturn probably does stroll off a couple of times.

Good tip, I will look in to that thanks:)

Off to learn how to use vdub now.

edit: even with cutting the frames I still get about 15 seconds of saturn and minutes of nothing.

[Notts star]

Nice pic well done........

[beamish]

By far and away better than my 1st ever pic !

Q: have you tried Registax V5 at all ?

[rawhead]

Looking good Jarrod

[JB80]

Thankyou everyone , I'm quite happy with it.

It was only 335 frames too but I have worked on getting better alignment in my avi and have managed to get much more out of it (thanks to Stuart) . Might have an updated version soon.

And I used Registax 5.1 to do the stacking, it's a process I still need more practice on though. I have only stacked Jupiter once and now Saturn.

edit:

Here is one with about 2000 frames.

[Demonperformer]

Excellent for a first attempt.

[RogerTheDodger]

Very good first attempt

[JB80]

Thanks

I want to try with a barlow next but unguided that might be a bit harder to do.

I do have a nice shiny set of motors though, I should probably put them on soon.