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I Captured my best Saturn to date last night. I still am trying to get better clarity and sharpness but with Saturn at only 27° I’m not sure I can attain what I’ve seen others get with the same gear. I’m still happy with the image though. What do you think?
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Hi !
Great picture, I'd be happy to do half such a job !
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Nice job, are you balancing colours in RegiStax? It looks like the shades I get from it. I’m a bit ambivalent about the colours as it’s not what I see in the eyepiece, I think it desaturates too much, what do you think?
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Very Nice Capture.
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Congratulations Dana on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!!!

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Congrats on the APOD!
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Looks great Dana! Congrats on winning the APOD for today!
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Hi Dana. A superlative image of Saturn from you here. Nice belting and the Cassini division shows up well too. Thanks for sharing this great capture with us Dana, and congratulations on winning the TSS APOD Award today.
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It's a good one, Dana. I love it!
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Very nice image, Dana! Congratulations on TSS APOD.

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Great image.
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Outstanding Saturn image. Beats the pants off of anything I've captured to date.
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Greenman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:55 pm Nice job, are you balancing colours in RegiStax? It looks like the shades I get from it. I’m a bit ambivalent about the colours as it’s not what I see in the eyepiece, I think it desaturates too much, what do you think?
Yes I balanced this in Registax, however it wasn’t much different before balancing. My Saturn I took a few weeks ago with a dslr looked basically the same too. I feel it should maybe be yellower? I’m not really sure.
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Gordon wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 5:07 pm Congratulations Dana on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!!!

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Thank you very much!
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Hankmeister3 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:45 pm Outstanding Saturn image. Beats the pants off of anything I've captured to date.
With the gear I see in your signature you definitely have the stuff to do it. What latitude are you located at? Seeing and Saturns height in the sky seems to be the biggest factor in getting a good image. Capturing the video the right way is important too. I’m only using a cheap zwo 120mc camera. I sometimes use my dslr, but only on 3x zoom because that is a true 1:1 pixel scale By cropping the sensor to an actual 1980x1080. Normal video mode never works as well because it down samples the whole sensor from say 5000x3000 to 1980x1080 and you lose a lot of resolution.
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Beautiful capture of those beautiful rings. Congrats on the TSS APOD award.

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Very Nice and Excellent Detail and Congrats on the APOD!
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