Christmas Saturn

Hi all,

It's been a long time since I've been able to image, 43 days to be exact. I originally went out to try to image Santa and his reindeer, but decided to go for Saturn instead.

Meade LX90 8" SCT @ f/35, ToUcam 840 w/IR block filter, Seeing 5-6/10, Transparency 3/5, Frames= 1400/4600 @ 10fps, resized 110%.

Regards,
Ed Roach

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Hello Ed,



Nice picture, and Merry Christmas. I wanted to out last night myself but we had periodic rain coming in off the Gulf of Mexico.


Kirk

Hi Ed!

Great result! If you would, what were your oher settings - gain, saturation, brightness, etc? Are you set to capture in 640 x 480, or 320 x240?

I have not had great results. None of my images from last night were even processable, except one afocal shot - which was not very good (attached).

I had better results my first time out - I should have paid more attention to my settings - I was just too excited to try the new toy!

Happy Holidays. Heappy New Year.

Gregg

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Hi everyone,

I reprocessed the avi using less frames(1176/4600). I also left it at original size and orientation. I think it came out slightly sharper than the last image.

Thanks,
Ed Roach

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Both of your images are very good Edward and Gregory. I'm jealous.

Gregory, I was curious to see what your image would look like when processed the way I process my images of Saturn. I hope you don't mind that I took the libery of processing your image. I like it. It's attached here.

Michael Watts

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