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First attempt at Saturn

Started by Gerry F, 12/08/2004 02:56AM
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My friend and I tried imaging Saturn Friday night. The enclosed photo is a stacked image of about 60 of the best frames. It is unprocessed. If anyone would like to try and improve it, please do so. We fooled around with processing it but only got fair results. Thanks, Gerry

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Posted 12/08/2004 03:27AM #1
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Nice picture, what setup did you use ?
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Nice shot Gerry!
Please let us know what equipment you used...


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Gerry,

A very nice image for the first try. What instrument did you use?

I took the image and applied wavelets in Registax (1-8 and 2-8). The attached is the result I got.

A hint...with planets you need LOTS of frames...for Saturn around 1000-2000 is what you should shoot for. Jupiter you can manage less, 500-1000 mostly because the planet shows so much detail and longer than 60-100 second exposures start to smear detail. Add a barlow and you will be pleasantly surprised how much detail you will get.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Paul Maxson


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