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2nd try at Saturn

Started by geomorph, 10/03/2004 09:26PM
Posted 10/03/2004 09:26PM | Edited 10/04/2004 03:51AM Opening Post
I took another Saturn series yesterday morning, but didn't get around to processing until today. This is a stack of the best 250 frames of 1609. The conditions were somewhat better than they were on my first try. I managed a little more detail on the disk this time, but I am puzzled as to why the outer rings appear to be thinner on the right side than on the left.... an artifact of the processing.... but why? Even some of the individual frames looked like this. As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Tyler

Celestron Ultima 2000 with TeleVue 2.5X and Toucam Pro II
Processed in K3CCDTools and Photoshop CS

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Posted 10/04/2004 02:15PM #1
Nice work Tyler.

Chances are, the effect is being caused by atmoshpheric turbulence - which tends to create the effect of less-than-perfect-oval rings.

This is just my opinion, but it looks as though you could possibly brighten your capture images a tad, say increase the gain/brightness or use a lower shutter speed.

Well done none-the-less.

Derrick.