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Saturn 2003/12/21

Saturn Image Information

• Date: 2003.12.21 22:36 PST
• South pole is at the top
  
• Poor seeing with high clouds
  
• Images taken from driveway
  

Photo Information

• CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
• EXPOSURE: 0.125 sec
• GAIN: 100
• OFFSET: 54
• TRACK: Off
• COMBINE: off
• SAVE EVERY IMAGE: on
• DARK SUB: off
• MIN QUALITY: 50
• EVALUATION COUNT: 10
• MONO:off
• KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedMed, Apply after 10 images
• HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
• HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
• HISTOGRAM LOG: off
• OBJECT: Saturn
• IMAGES: 200 taken in 313 seconds, 117 stacked in Registax
• FILE TYPE: BMP

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

Best image of 200 from LPI

117 Images stacked and processed in RegiStax

RegiStax image processed in Photoshop CS

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