Saturn May 06, 2013
This image was taken a little after midnight under good seeing conditions (7/10). Three minutes of each channel (RGB) was collected with a 55% histogram fill factor. This image was made with a 12" LX200GPS, Chroma Technologies LRGB filters, TeleVue 2.5x Barlow and Flea3 camera. FireCapture was used for camera control and video recording under the Windows 7 OS. Astrostakkert 2 was used for alignment and stacking. Registax was used for wavelet processing. RRGB registration and derotation was done in WinJupos. Final processing was done in Photoshop CS5.
Saturn May 01, 2013
This image was taken about midnight under good seeing conditions (7/10). Two minutes of each channel (RGB) was collected with a 65% histogram fill factor. This image was made with a 12" LX200GPS, Chroma Technologies LRGB filters, TeleVue 2.5x Barlow and Flea3 camera. FireCapture was used for camera control and video recording under the Windows 7 OS. Astrostakkert 2 was used for alignment and stacking. Registax was used for wavelet processing. RRGB registration and derotation was done in WinJupos. Final processing was done in Photoshop CS5.
Saturn Feb. 03, 2013
This image was taken about 6:30 am under good seeing conditions (7/10). Three minutes of each channel (RGB) was collected with a 65% histogram fill factor. This image was made with a 12” LX200GPS, Chroma Technologies LRGB filters. TeleVue 2.5x Barlow, and Flea3 camera. FireCapture was used for camera control and video recording under the Windows 7 OS. AutoStakkert 2 was used for alignment and stacking. Registax was used for Wavelet processing. RGB registration and combine was done in WinJupos. Final processing was done in PhotoShop CS5.
Saturn April 21, 2012
This image was taken about midnight under good seeing conditions (6/10). The image is composed of the best 16,000 of 20,000 frames. The L frames were collected at 30fps. The R and G frames were collected at 15fps. The B frames were collected at 7.5fps. This image was made with a 12” LX200GPS, Astronomik 2c LRGB filters. TeleVue 3x Barlow, and Flea3 camera. Data collection and processing was done with Astro IIDC Mac software and Photoshop.
Saturn June 24, 2012
This image was taken about 9:40 PM under very good seeing conditions (8/10). The image is composed of the best 3,600 of 7,000 frames. The L, R and G frames were collected at 15fps. The B frames were collected at 7.5fps. This image was made with a 12” LX200GPS, Astronomik 2c LRGB filters. TeleVue 3x Barlow, and Flea3 camera. Data collection was done with Astro IIDC Mac software. The image was processed with Registax 6 and Photoshop.
Saturn 10 Jan. 2004, 5:00 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro, Mogg Adapter, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod. Super Wedge
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2400 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 8/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1200 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2400 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 8/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1200 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Saturn 20 Dec. 2003, 7:00 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro, Mogg Adapter, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod. Super Wedge
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2396 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 8/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1000 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2396 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 8/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1000 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Saturn 18 Oct. 2003 12:30 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro, Mogg Adapter, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod. Super Wedge
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 3637 frames @ 15 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 9/10, Temp. ~72 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: bias subtract, align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 3637 frames @ 15 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 9/10, Temp. ~72 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: bias subtract, align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image for larger version.
Saturn 16 Feb. 2003, 1:00 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro, Mogg Adapter, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod. Super Wedge
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2400 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 7/10, Temp. ~45 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1200 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on the image to see the full size version.
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 2400 frames @ 10 FPS for 4 min., Image Size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 7/10, Temp. ~45 deg.F
Processing: IRIS: select (1200 for Lum), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: GRGB combine, unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on the image to see the full size version.
