Another Red 25th March

[neil phillips]

Heavy resize on the bottom, i was hoping at point to get a image that would withstand a 200% resize. last night was better but falls short of getting that. but this heavy resize, still seems to be holding up fairly well.

171%

[beamish]

I'd take it !

[WolfsPride]

What type of scope do you have? That is amazing

[neil phillips]

Hi its a 10 " Orion f6.3 1/10th pv newtonian

Another colour shot taken later

[WolfsPride]

Awesome shot. I'm jealous lol

[quantumpanda]

Now that's impressive.

[beamish]

agreed !

[astroman001]

Those are some really great images. Love the smooth colours on the disk in the last image.

regards

Peter

[johnh]

That red shows really fine banding, if you use curves you can bring it out more but crepe suffers so you need layers to restore crepe. These are all good images, DPeach just shoots red because of low alt and seeing so good colour which you've got is ambitious.

John.

[neil phillips]

Thanks for the feedback

On reflection ( no pun intended ) i think overall it was a better night than of late. i have stuff on my pc that havent posted from days before that didnt quite show the moments of calm this night did. On the best footage i would estimate no more than a third of the footage ( and even that is disturbed slightly ) is calmer. the other two thirds are either completly blurred out, or somewhere in between. and this was a fairly good night. I keep hoping i will get 6 mins on red with mostly calm. But its not looking likely. Still you never know ?

Interesting about Dp. It makes sense doesnt it, to concentrate on red. Of course this saturn season will be mostly reds, with the occassional colour thrown in. waiting untill the reds seem promising before colour is attempted is the best way. But often a rgb run just goes wrong, even if the red holds (which often it doesnt for such a short period ) the green likely starts playing up. and then the blue. well man i hate those blues lol.

But its good practise doing RGBs for jupiter, im doing it a lot now. havent touched the DBK in weeks. might give it a bash under better trans though. just a quickie.

Interesting about curves, Its not something i use a lot of, which i would of thought i would like, as its user defined. Sounds like your stretching the contrast or something similair, hence the crepe dieing. Interesting idea of using layers to correct for negatives during processing. Probably your deepsky work coming out here i would assume ? Its something in time i think i will have to start experimenting with. I agree it really does sound like the answer to a lot of problems that cant be solved any other way. Processing the moons of jupiter seperatly for example. Its something i hope i can PM you about in the coming months No rush. I need more software

Cheers John

[Space Cowboy]

Loving the scale and detail Neil!

[dweller25]

Given the altitude of Saturn (I assume you live in the UK ?) that is an excellent image.

[Looking Up]

Super image, the colour of the various bands is so good!

[Key]

Stunning!

Seen a lot worse published in books and magazines!

[star_chaser]

great shots especially the last one

ive had one night viewing in the last month and im yet to even see saturn yet

[neil phillips]

Cheers all

yes i live in the uk, starchaser saturn can be hard with small scopes, but some have got good results with them

[Taff]

Yet again' very nice images with you, the ring looks great.Mark

[cottongt]

That is incredible!

[AztecastroMcJ]

Great results Neil with nice natural looking processing:)

cheers

James