It was very turbulent and the moon was close by but decided to snap a session of this grand planet and my first of the season.

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Hi Jaicoa,

This is very nice.
I love everything you post. Your images are out of this world.
Thanks my friend and clear skies!

Phil

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hi Jaicoa,...(or is it Efraim...?)

I loke Your saturn too! even more as You tell it was turbulent. for this circumstances You caught some nice details!

may I ask: You say 50% brightness...why only 50...?
and what about saturation?

best regards
Dietmar

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Thanks for your kind comments. Stargazer my name is Efrain and to answer your questions it depends on the conditions at what brightness level i select too bright it will wash some details and not recoveral at photoshop level or any other image program same goes to the saturation levels and most important keeping the gain level low = less grain. any other questions please feel free to ask my friend. Clear Skies to all

hi Efrain, (or would You prefer to be addresses with Your nick...?)

I always like to go with highest saturation as ever possible in the first place.
cos if it is really too mich it is much easier to reduce this in PS in postprocessing. but when You lower this in the frist place and find a leakage in color depth You cannot increase this chrominance without picking artefacts in PS,...(-: this at least goes for my experience.

gain low - sure thing...otherwise high noise.
but it`S better to kepp brightness as high as possible and gain as low as possible - luminance noise is lower...(-:

a nice option is to play a bit with gamma - only so much gamma that the edges of the planet (or c-ring e.g.) comes up nicely...some percent only...

well, anyhow - it is always a matter of trial and error to go for the best.
and I have found , that even the "same" cameras have competly different chips...

best regards
Dietmar

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Hi Dietmar, you are quite right on all but i go to conditions at the momment i don't usuall stay always with the same settings all the time. and gamma the most i will go at times is aprox. 5% it too might wash out detail and of course i use filters as i did in this photo (Yellow) i forgot include in the pic info. these are two pic i included here in case you haven't seen them on this site as an example. By the way you have a very nice collection of photos that are simply astonishing! and of course a array of equipment very nice my friend. you can address me either Jaicoa or Efrain Clear Skies my friend.

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hi Efrain,

thanks for Your nice words on my results and equipment.
I`m also very impressed with Your images!
particulary the Jupiter image You attacjed is just awesome, but Saturn is also very cool! jupiter displays quite a huge amount of details even in the small ovals.
best regards to Puerto Rico, my friend!
Yours truly
Diets

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