Most of the night of 4/26 was wasted, as the camera inadvertently shut off or lost power after inaging for about 3 hours worth of deep sky objects, but I was able to capture Saturn a day before opposition. The rings were bright enough to see the C ring, which I later enhanced to make it more visible. Seeing was rather poor, the planet was bouncing and dancing on the preview screen. I am surprised how well the pictures came out under such conditions.
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| Saturn - original stack |
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This was what I got directly from Registax. You can see the C ring in this image. The next day, I loaded the image in Photoshop, flipped the image so north is on the top, and I also enhanced the dark areas, to enhance the C ring.
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| Satern enhanced |
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Enhancing the C ring also seemed to sharpen it up somewhat.
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