Saturn from Waterford

Thats a lil better aint it......tis clear the weekend :!:

Hi Steve,
Did you cut out and paste the planets image onto a black background? I'd try and blend the planet into the background a little more.

Dave,

It turned out that my monitor was not properly callibrated (only discovered by me when looking at the images on another machine, and went :oops: ). So I probably pushed the processing too far on those, hence the copy and paste look.

Anyway, thanks to your good advice, I managed to give it another go without the barlow tonight in the company of SaturnV, (thanx for the company Tony!!). I have to say you were spot on Dave, easier to focus and the machine grabbed alot more usable frames. here is the result from 16th Feb. no barlow:



...... I just hope my monitor callibration is a bit better this time, during the stacking and processing stage.

Well done Steve much better nice and sharp,great detail. My monitor is giving me a lot of problems It's to hard to get the right balance .As you properly know laptops are not the best for doing planetary imaging with anyway.Best to use a computer OMG I have to spend more money.

Thats much better aint it....alot sharper and much more detail turned out nice in the end.....hardly any noise in it either would you think

MUCH better image.
What wavelet settings are you using?
It looks like its pushed too far in NO4 / No5.
If you find that you are getting a dull image and
need to push those levels to get detail,
try playing around with the brightness/contrast setting
before hand.
You can always adjust it further in PS