Saturn-18-20060226

Saturn on a good night from Dallas. This was made with the 3RF SV152mm (6") apochromat and is the best roughly 180 frames of a 450-frame AVI made with a ToUCam Pro 840K webcam and a 4X Televue Powermate. In processing, I first resampled (doubled) the frame size and then applied three-alignment-point processing in Registax 3. Alignment points and sizes are shown as A, B, and C when you mouseover the image (thanks, Ramsay!). I then resized to 640x480 using the Mitchell resampler. It was a good night!

 

This is my second image to hit 900 views (April 16, 2007). The other one was also a photo of Saturn, but made with a MUCH larger telescope ... that photo is here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/chipdatajeffb/307036649/

 

Scope and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).

 

My second photo to hit 1,000 views (May 11, 2007) ... 1,100 (June 3, 2007) ... 1,200 (July 3, 2007) ...1,400 (Aug. 30, 2007) ... 1,500 (Sept. 19, 2007) ... 2,000 (Dec. 25, 2007) ... Thanks!

 

COTC:mostinteresting

 

-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as most interesting.

 

Done