Saturn L R G B with a few tips from dave tyler.

Hi All,

Well I've been sending some of my images over to Dave Tyler in England he is an brilliant planetary imager, most of you would have heard of him .
www.david-tyler.com check out some of his images, anyway he has given me a lot of tips and tricks of the trade here is one of the results,

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3rd April 2007 at 20.03 New Haven Observatory, Balbriggan. Celestron CGE 14" @ f/22. Lumenera SkyYnx 2.0. Astronomik filters L-120sec R-40s-G-40s-B-40s Processing Registax v4 photoshop seeing good.

Wow !! That is some image Carl. You have certainly set the standard there.

Fair Play Carl, That is the best one I've seen you produce. Looking closely at the globe I can see lots of detail, some spots perhaps. I'm not sure if these are real surface features or processing artifacts.

Now the next level is to get more frames into each channel as Mr.Tyler mentioned to you. That would result in the image being much smoother with finer detail visible.

Keep up the good work mate. I only wish my images were improving at the rate yours are!

Hi Carl

Sorry for the late reply - I've been getting your emails but havent had a chance yet to reply.

Great detail, Lovely Cassini all the way around the disk.

Dont be afraid to add some noise reduction to your img. Do you see the mottled effect in the sky around the img - thats left overs from your image processing. try this - In photoshop Duplicate the layer. Then on this new layer add some Gaussian blur until this blotchyness in your sky is gone, normally a value of 1 or 2 is enough. Now u can adjust the weight of the layer (adjust the % ) until you get a nice balance between each img.

Notice on DP's and DT's images that under bad seeing conditions they're more interested in producing "clean" images then ones that may have fine detail.

Do post your result and hope this helps.

DG2

Jeez Carl, you trying to knock Damien Peach off the throne?
Fabulous stuff.

Was looking at Dave Tyler's site a few days ago. Some incredible h-alpha solar stuff there too!

Trev