Saturn 20130723@21:13UT

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Can't remember the last time I imaged Saturn... 

First Saturn of this 2012/13 season.

This has been a very long and cloudy winter, spring and summer and I was just lucky enough this evening, just before the clouds rolled in once again... the Blue channel was recorded with very low transparency due to clouds rolling in.

I just can't believe this!

Seeing: better than average around here, but not able to go to f/30.

C11 + powermate 2.0x + RGB Astronomik IIc + DMK21AF

Autostakkert (alignment and stacking)

Registax 6 (wavelets)

CS4

Saturn - 20110508

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The C14 dovetail has finally arrived, after a long period of "who knows where it was shipped to". I was so anxious to get Saturn that I didn't allow the scope to cool down properly, nor did I precise collimate.
Binned L (1x1) RGB (2x2) on Firecapture.
Aligned and Staked with Autostakkert.
Wavelets on Registax 6.
Final tweaks on CS4.
Close to Fair Seeing conditions (see Damien Peach: http://www.damianpeach.com/seeingscale.htm)

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 :-(

Satrun, Astrostakkert reprocessed

Saturn, reprocessed on just released Emil's Astrostakkert.
This shot was taken on March 13, 2009.
C11 + DMK21AF + RGB Astronomik IIc.
500 frames each channel.
CS4 for Levels and Noisware.