Saturn from Waterford

Hi all,

I realise this is no "Bird" or "Carl O Beirnes" image, but anyway here it is.

I got my first chance to attempt to image Saturn last night and here is the result.

CGE 11SCT, Philips spc900 c/w a 2x Barlow. There was alot of noise on the AVIs.

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Stacked in registax, Levels, curves, dodging in PS CS2

Damn..........................the detail is more than there. Just the focus is out .

Well Steve,
Not pushing the image scale beyond what the seeing will deliver is as important as focusing.
You'll find that if you don't use a barlow you'll find focusing easier and it makes for good practice before using a barlow where everything becomes more difficult.

Thanks lads.

Dave, after tearing down the rig last night, with hindsight I regretted not getting a Non-Barlowed version, particularly as I was not using it (the barlow)for the Lunar imaging I was doing earlier..... Next time, however!!!

Nice image steve....was cloudy out my way lastnight :roll:

I gave the processing another go on that batch. This is using less (but higher quality frames). Still not sharp, but not as noisey.

[edit] Photo removed from Flickr after seeing it on a decent monitor [edit]