Saturn from last night, a quick stack

[Rocket Pooch]

[JohnP]

Looks good-did you do anything else...?

[Rocket Pooch]

I used the new ToUCam Pro, that was a shock, its really noisy v's the Vesta680 but the colour rendition is excellent.  This is a stack from the night, I got in about 3am.

Also I noticed with the pillar I can now do 6 minute AVI's @ F30 with the LX90, this will improve with the EQ6 so I should be able to get a better signal to noise ratio and also use a 5x barlow in the future.

The observatory is great, the scope was cool, I spent 45 minutes collimating the scope, it needed it after I bashed the roof on it.  And then bingo all go.

[Whitters]

Jaw drop!
Fantastic image Chris

[JohnP]

Yep! Nice one Chris a great image - U just knew that U were going to have to bash the scope at some stage - so best to get it out the way at the start... 6min Avi's at 10fps... must be pretty large files... Have U tried Raw modifying the ToUCam..

Cheers - John

[Rocket Pooch]

I've now processed it a bit

[Ian]

those colours look pretty accurate, a lot of pics of the planets seem to wash out the disc or make the rings unrealistically saturated, your pic has a good balance between to two. Making the raw mod should help some of that noise, but you might have to work at the colour balance to match that one.

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi Ian,

It was not a problem getting to colour right at all with this, there was a little blueness in the originals so all I did was reduced the blue.  The noise is anoying and I notices just how much there was with the ToUCam II compaired to the Vesta 680k; but the Vesta does not reproduce either the colours or the low light ability of the ToUCam Pro.  I will Twirg it (non Raw mod) when I get out next (look like the new year now) and have another go.

Also I might 5x it as well to see what happens.

Chris