Saturn
The Saturn image below was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using Registax 2 and Adobe Photoshop 7. The final image is a stack of 351 individual frames taken in good seeing conditions. A Baader IR blocking filter was used. This image is probably my best Saturn image to date.
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Saturn - 351 stacked images |
The Saturn image below was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using Registax 2 and Adobe Photoshop 7. The final image is a stack of 351 individual frames taken in fairly good seeing conditions. A Baader IR blocking filter was used.
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Saturn - 351 stacked images |
The Saturn image below was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using Registax and is a stack of 81 individual frames taken in moderate seeing conditions just before clouds came in.
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Saturn - 81 stacked images |
The Saturn images below were acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. Both were processed using Registax. The left hand image is a stack of 296 individual frames taken in moderate seeing conditions. From the original 296 frames, the best frames were extracted (288 frames) and processed in an attempt to reveal the finest detail possible.
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Saturn - 296 stacked images |  |
Saturn - 288 stacked images |
Both Saturn images shown here were acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam and processed using Registax. A TeleVue 2.5x barlow was used for the first image, and is a stack of 105 individual frames in moderate seeing conditions. The second image was overexposed to bring out 6 of Saturn's satellites. The identified satellites are labeled in the image. It is quite amazing to be able to image satellite Mimas at magnitude 12.9, with a humble webcam. No barlow lens was used for this image, and the longest webcam exposure setting of 1/25 second was selected.
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Saturn - 126 stacked images |  |
Saturn's satellites - 302 stacked images |
Both Saturn images shown here were acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam and processed using Registax. A TeleVue 2.5x barlow was used for the first image, and is a stack of 105 individual frames in moderate seeing conditions. The second image was overexposed to bring out 5 of Saturn's satellites. The identified satellites are labeled in the image. No barlow lens was used for this image, and the longest webcam exposure setting of 1/25 second was selected.
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Saturn - 105 stacked images |  |
Saturn's satellites - 204 stacked images |
Both Saturn images shown here were acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam and processed using Registax. The first is a stack of 379 individual frames in moderate seeing conditions. The second image is a stack of the best 72 frames from the previous 379 frames. For these images the raw data comprised 19 separate AVI files acquired at 10 fps at 1/33 second shutter speed. The image frame size was 640x480 pixels. The AVI files consumed 1.74GB and totaled 4055 individual frames.
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Saturn - 379 stacked images |  |
Saturn - 72 stacked images |
The Saturn image was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using Registax and is a stack of 86 individual frames again taken in very windy and turbulent seeing conditions.
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Saturn - 86 stacked images |
The Saturn image was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using Registax and is a stack of 71 individual frames taken in very windy and turbulent seeing conditions.
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Saturn - 71 stacked images |
The Saturn image was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5) and the CIT algorithm (1 iteration).
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The Saturn image was acquired using a Philips ToUCam Pro webcam. It was processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5) and the CIT algorithm (1 iteration).
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Saturn - 50 stacked images |
The Saturn image was processed using an unsharp mask (strength 8) and the CIT algorithm (1 iteration). This particular Saturn image is my best image to date.
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Saturn - 88 stacked images |
The following Saturn images were taken with my OMC140 Maksutov telescope. On this particular night I considered the seeing and atmospheric turbulence too bad to use the larger aperture Ultima 9.25 telescope. The smaller aperture of the OMC140 seemed to provide a steadier image. For all the images I used a Televue 2.5x barlow lens to increase the image scale and my Philips Vesta Pro webcam. The image was processed using an unsharp mask (strength 7), the Lucy-Richardson algorithm (4 iterations), and had a gaussian blur applied using Paint Shop Pro.
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Saturn - 74 stacked images |
The Saturn image was processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5) and the CIT algorithm (1 iteration). The image had a gaussian blur applied using Paint Shop Pro.
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Saturn - 124 stacked images |
All Images were processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5) and the CIT algorithm (3 iterations) followed by a gaussian blur in Paint Shop.
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Saturn - 71 stacked images |
All Images were processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5).
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Saturn - 19 stacked images. |
The image was processed using an unsharp masked and the CIT algorithm (3 iterations) followed by a gaussian blur in Paint Shop Pro.
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Saturn - 64 stacked images. |
All Images were processed using an unsharp mask (strength 5).
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| Saturn, 22:31UT, 28 images | Saturn, 22:42UT, 24 images |