Saturn - 20110425 @21h25m UT

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Saturn at f/20, aligned and stacked in Autostakkert with 1.5x drizzle routine, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and final tweaks in CS4.
Titan, Saturn's largest moon is visible.

Saturn - 20110414 @23h16m UT

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Saturn, on the night of April 14th.
The storm that is putting on an awesome show on the North Tropical Zone can be clearly seen, along with Tethis shadow just below the rings, on the left lower quadrant.

Saturn - 20110414

Better seeing allowed collimation and this Saturn 2nd picture of this year's season. Transparency was not that good, making data acquisition very difficult for the Blue channel.
This is a LRGB, showing some red and green tints due to histogram equalization difficulties.
C11 @f/30 + DMK21AF(icx618) + Astronomik 2c


Luminance:

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Saturn - 1st season picture

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This is my first Saturn of the 2011 season.
I set the C11 up on top of the pier to start my Saturn season but had no luck with the weather. The clouds rolled in and I was only able to shoot on Luminance avi.
Could not work on the collimation so this is as good as it could get :-(

M51 - Remote controlled first light

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First light with full system ready.
I have finally managed to complete my project of setting up a remote controlled system, consisting of pier, mount, scope and camera. Control is possible via an internet based system, in which I can operate the system (laptop-mount-scope) with another laptop linked to the system.
No more freezing outside ;-)

FS-102NSV + ST2kXM + AO8
March 31st, April 1st @ 22h00m/1h14m
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Registax v6. - Jupiter reprocessed

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Last April 2nd Registax 6 was released. Time to go back to my old Jupiter avis I got in January and give them a new shot.
Registax 6 seems to be much better then v5, with its multialignment points and image processing is much quicker.
Great timing since Saturn season is right there.