6 Oct
2003
6 Oct
'03
9:24 a.m.
I had some relatively good seeing this morning and Saturn was quite spectacular; see the image I took with the Phillips TouCam Pro at http://www.utahastronomy.com/. This was taken with a 9.25-inch Celeston SCT and Vixen GP-DX mount. This is a very portable setup. Many thanks to David for information on TouCam settings. My previous images of Mars showed pretty good detail but poor color rendidtion. This was because I used exposures of 1/100 and 1/500 sec. with high gain and 100 exposures per second. Unfornunately the computer compresses such images and they suffer in quality. Another thing I have learned is that good processing cannot substitute for good seeing. Clear Skies Don Colton 801-566-3000 (w) 801-571-9757 (h)