Saturn December 18

Started by awesley, 12/20/2006 02:20AM

Posted 12/20/2006 02:20AM | Edited 12/20/2006 12:45PM Opening Post

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Despite the low altitude at transit of 38 degrees and lots of smoke haze from fires around SE Australia I was quite happy with this image. The smoke lowered transparency to about 50% of normal.

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13.1" f/5.5 newtonian + powermate (FL=11000mm, F/33)
R/G/B Astronomik filters
R/G = 2 minutes @ 14fps
B = 2 minutes @ 10fps

Dragonfly Express mono firewire camera
captured under linux with Coriander
Processed under Windows with registax4, Astra Image and The Gimp

regards, Anthony

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Posted 12/20/2006 02:39AM #1

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Hi Anthony,

Looks mighty pretty to me. Nice job!

-JW:

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Posted 12/20/2006 12:01PM #2

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Anthony, gorgeous shot! Excellent detail especially under your seeing conditions. Thanks for posting it

Regards,
Steve

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Posted 12/20/2006 07:52PM #3

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An excellent saturn, Anthony.

best -
Alan

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Posted 12/22/2006 02:43PM #4

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A great looking Saturn Anthony. I can just imaging how nice it would be with a nice high altitude!

Regards,
Ed Roach

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