Saturn 18th Dec - *Big* Improvement

Hi all,

Far and away the best Saturn image I've ever got! Good seeing and
painstaking collimation were the reasons.

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_rgb.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_all.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...45_rgb_800.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...5_rgb_1024.jpg

Regards
Ian.

Ian Sharp wrote:
Hi all,

Far and away the best Saturn image I've ever got! Good seeing and
painstaking collimation were the reasons.

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_rgb.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_all.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...45_rgb_800.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...5_rgb_1024.jpg

Regards
Ian.




Wow - what spec scope did you use to take that ?

It's a standard Celestron C-11 on a Losmandy G-11 mount, very carefully
collimated. I used a 3x Televue Barlow, projected to about 3.5x giving about
f/35. The camera is a standard ATIK-1HS using Astronomik RGB filters.

Regards
Ian.

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Ian Sharp wrote:
Hi all,

Far and away the best Saturn image I've ever got! Good seeing and
painstaking collimation were the reasons.

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_rgb.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_all.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...45_rgb_800.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...5_rgb_1024.jpg

Regards
Ian.




Wow - what spec scope did you use to take that ?

Ian Sharp nous a écrit :

Hi all,

Far and away the best Saturn image I've ever got! Good seeing and
painstaking collimation were the reasons.


Even if it was a painstaking job, it was worth doing it
Really nice pictures.

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Another late night and another great image Ian

did the re-registax of the red channel fix the processing artefact from the
11th? I have noticed an double edge on some of my images that I have been
unable to fix so far.

btw you will do well to top this one next week ;-)
thanks for sharing
Darren

"Ian Sharp" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Far and away the best Saturn image I've ever got! Good seeing and
painstaking collimation were the reasons.

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_rgb.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa..._03.45_all.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...45_rgb_800.jpg

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/sa...5_rgb_1024.jpg

Regards
Ian.