Digital Astrophotography - Saturn

2005-01-29

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.

2004-12-19

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.

2004-04-16

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.

2004-04-16

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