Saturn August 19, 2016
Characteristics:
Image scale: 0.12 arcsec/pixel
North pole at top
Photographic
Details:
Dates: August 19, 2016, video
capture from 9:00 to 9:45PM EST
Scope: Celestron 9.25" (235mm), native focal length
2350mm, f10 (used at f25 with Televue 2.5x 1.25" Powermate, with a
functional focal length of 5875mm)
Camera: Skyris 132 monochrome
video camera, pixel size 3.5 um, with Starlight Xpress USB powered 5
position filter wheel for 2" filters
Filters: 2" mounted
Baader
LRGB filters
Seeing conditions: Poor, Altitude varied from about 23 degrees to
20 degrees during capture. Saturn is positioned too low for good
seeing.
Location: Needham, MA
Post-processing:
Video capture in FireCapture, video
stacking in AutoStakkert!, wavelet
processing in Registax, final processing in Photoshop (LRGB combine)
using a combination of Astraimage, Topaz denoise, and unsharp masking
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note: Graphics on this website
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