Digital Astrophotography - Saturn

Excellent seeing conditions and a greater familiarity with control of the webcam led to this image of Saturn. This is an astounding improvement on previous efforts. I took a 2000-frame AVI and selected the best 700 frames, mostly by hand rather than using the automatic settings on Registax.

This was the first good chance to get Saturn during this season. I took 5 1,000-frame AVIs and a 2,000-frame AVI. This image is a stack of about 600 frames from 1,000. It is a good improvement on the results I got at the end of last season.

Saturn in all its glory. It is interesting to compare this image to the one I took in early 2005. The improvement in technique is obvious.

An overexposed image of Saturn to show four of its moons.