Mars and Saturn from Australia

Blogged by Aurélie Le Fort-Beunink on February 8, 2012 and tagged with Sample Images, Mars, Saturn.

Taken from Bundaberg Queensland Australia by John Earl @ 13:30 AM AEST (minus 10 hrs to arrive at UT) 1st Febuary. Mars was imaged at F40 (11" SCT) in 7-7.5/10 seeing. Alt 68 degrees. 180s capture @ 60 FPS. Gain was set at 60% with an exposure of 1/61s. 105 gamma (100 default). 3000 stacked in Registax Ver. 6 with 5 alignment points. Y800 codec & debayered in Firecapture Debayer tool. Resampling (130%) to the RAW data was applied in VirtualDub.Post processing was done in Paint.net.

Saturn was imaged at F22 (11" SCT) in the same seeing. Alt. 65 degrees 15:30 AEST 1st Febuary. 133s capture only due to incoming cloud @ 30 FPS. Gain was set to 100% with an exposure of 1/31s. 105 gamma (100 default) 1500 stacked in Registax Ver. 6 with 3 alignment points. Y800 codec & debayered in Firecapture Debayer tool. Resampling (110%) to the RAW data was applied in VirtualDub. A further resize up in Registax. Post processing in Paint.net.

John Earl

Mars - John Earl

Saturn - John Earl

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