Hi all

The seeing was not all that good last night but I took a few avi's anyway.

At low power the seeing was not bad, but the higher you went the worse it got. These two photos are the best I could do. both are 4min avi's at 1/10 of a sec 10 fps. Taken with my 125 etx and a sac 7 ccd.

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Hi Paul, Even though the conditions weren't the best you did real good. cassini division is easily seen. Clear Skies

Paul,

I took the liberty of tweaking one of your images of Saturn.

I brightened the image with curves. I then adjusted the color balance using levels, adjusting the green and blue white levels to the top of the data and leaving the red alone. I copied the whole thing into a new layer, did a 2 pixel high pass filter on it and set it to blending mode of luminosity with an opacity of 75%.

When I opened the file in Photoshop, I noted that the histogram looked clipped on the dark end -- it was all crowded on the left with no gap. You might be losing some dim data down there.

--Andy

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Hi guys thanks for the feed back.

Andy thanks for tweeking the image and the how do info. I made a short tutorial on your information and I will try to copy what you did. There is so much to learn. Thanks again

Paul

I also took the liberty of tweaking it in photoshop. I adjusted the colors using curves and shaprened it a little.

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Hey Kyle

thanks for the help. later Paul

This thread just goes to show how much more can be done to images on those cloudy or turbulent nights. . . .

Thanks for the pics Paul and the tweaks advice Andy and Kyle.

Paul,

You are very welcome.

If you'd like to see a Photoshop file with layers for each of the mods I did, I loaded it as Saturn6AMS.psd at ftp.obsallona.net

--Andy

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Hey Guys, I am really impressed with the way you are willing to apply your experience to assist each other. Great work!!

Phil

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Hi Phil

how are you today, things here are better talk soon. Andy I would like that very much.

Paul,

Here is a link: ftp://ftp.obsballona.net/Saturn6AMS.psd

Let me know if you have any questions.

Clear skies,

--Andy

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