Images of Saturn

15 March 2004

Observing conditions were fairly good this evening and significantly better than on 1 February. This allowed me to acquire lots of images of Jupiter and Saturn.

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15 March 2004 22:03:40 UTC. Saturn's altitude above the horizon was slightly less than 50 degrees. Stack of 180 images, wavelet processing in Registax. Gain probably too high, the background is dark blue and not black.

 

1 February 2004

Conditions rather bad, the weather was windy.

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1 February 2004 21:53:04 UTC. My first image of Saturn to show a signicant amount of details. A stack of less than 100 images, wavelet processing (50,50,35,35,20,20) in RegiStax. The image looks noisy mainly because I didn't stack many images.