Saturn 2003/12/6
Saturn Image Information
- Date: 2003.12.06 22:41 PST
 - South pole is at the top
 - Poor seeing with high clouds
 - Images taken from driveway
 
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Philips PCVC740K ToUcam PRO web camera
 - SHUTTER: 1/50sec
 - GAIN: 31/53
 - FPS: 10
 - IMAGES: 1400 taken, 512 stacked
 - COLOR BALANCE: Outdoor, blue +1 click
 - AVI File: 031206saturn50g31r0b1n01.avi
 - FILTER: Sirius Optics Near Infrared blocking filter
 
Equipment
 
- Telescope: Orion Atlas 10 reflector (254 mm aperture, 
f/4.7 focal ratio, 1200 mm focal length) 
 - Barlow: Tele Vue 5x Powermate (effective f/23.5 focal ratio, 6000 mm focal length)
 - Finder: Mounted on top of a Atlas 10 is an Orion ShortTube 80 mm aperture rich-field refractor
(f/5 focal ratio, 400 mm focal length) which is used as a finder.
 - Focuser: JMI NGF-S Motofocus with DRO (Digital Read Out)
 - Telescope Mount: Losmandy G-11 mount
 
Imaging Processing
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1.14.0 beta, align, select, stack and process multiple images
 - Adobe Potoshop Version CS, unsharp mask, curves, resize, crop and convert to JPG
 
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2003 David Haworth