Nice shots Don, yes seeing is very important - I've not had a good chance yet with Saturn so my current images are pretty poor.

Cheers

David

----- Original Message -----

From: Don J. Colton

To: Visit http://www.utahastronomy.com for the photo gallery.

Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:24 AM

Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Saturn

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

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