Mastering Saturn Imaging

Always appreciate the video's and learning from them, life can get in the way! Myself going from terrible planetary images to pretty decent ones is always rewarding, its a journey after all, but I do admit, even terrible images are exciting at the beginning.

Great video Mark. I’ve missed your tutorials the past year. You are one of a few amateur astronomers I trusted to teach me planetary and lunar imaging two years ago. I love this hobby. If I may, AS!4 just came out last week. It’s version 4.04. Same interface but it runs much faster. Image quality is is the same or maybe a little better

Great to see a new video Mark excellent quick tutorial and finale image, looking forward to your next videos

That's absolutely amazing!

great video Mark! Thanks for sharing! I think astronomy is keeping us sane here :) We've had cloudy weather for weeks now and I can tell you I'm at my wit's end 😢 Anyway i'm just going through your Winjupos video for pointers, the weather might be better next week I want to be prepared to capture jupiter. Thanks for that video too BTW!

Thanks Mark for another excellent video, I had wondered were you had been recently.

Wonderful Mark. I'm a deep sky guy myself, whereas the processing is different. Thinking I should give this a go!

Great video Mark. Great to see you showing free software and what it can do. (Nice to hear about the contacts too. I used to work with you)

Really great video! Thanks! Saturn can be tricky to get nice and sharp this is so helpful

Really cool :) Saturn, quite the beauty++

Thanks mate! I'm an amateur myself. I have the Celestron Nexstar 8 its a sweet telescope 🔭 but I got the bug an am always lookin to upgrade 😂

Hermoso Saturno

Nice work Mark

Good job with Saturn!

Hi Mark, nice video. I didn’t see a comparison of using WINJUPOS vs not. We have pretty bad seeing where I am North America (Vermont) and I’ve tried taking advantage of WINJUPOS with my asi224MC camera, but honestly I never see any benefits. The stacked WINJUPOS image is typically no better than the best of my individual stacked and processed images. My brother, also in North America (Michigan) has significantly better seeing, uses the same camera, and can’t see a benefit either. I’m curious as to the differences you might be seeing. I can certainly understand why a mono-shooter needs WINJUPOS given the various filters and the need to align the features which are moving pretty quickly on Jupiter. In any case, it would be nice to show with/without WINJUPOS and how things are improved. It could be that we just don’t have good enough seeing or our techniques are wanting.

very nice

Great Video! Should I use my ASI183MC Pro for planetary imaging or my ASI120MC? Does it matter? I ask because the 120MC is called a planetary cam. But the 183MC is a step up in quality. I usually use the 120MC as a guide cam. Thanks again!

Hello. Mark nice that your back with ever more interesting content, with such digital control over image content information on such images is there a possibility of that detail information being corrupted.

What sort of frame rate are you capturing with Mark? I seem to be able to get a faster rate using Sharpcap at the same settings ie: gain, exposure and ROI.

Beautiful! What focuser do you use and how is it attached to your telescope?