Saturn

My first attempts at astro-imaging. Using a Sky Watcher 130m telescope with motor drive and imaged with a modified Philips Toucam Pro II Webcam. Processed and stacked with K3CCD tools and Registax.

Saturn - stacked image from best 200 frames of AVI video.  19/3/05. The best so far!	Saturn - stacked image from best 150  frames of AVI video in black and white.   19/3/05.	Saturn - still picture at 1/30sec. 19/3/05.
Saturn - The same stacked image as above but with wavelet filters applied in Registax at 200%.	Saturn - The same stacked image as above but with wavelet filters applied in Registax.	Saturn - Stacked image, but rather noisy, can see quite a bit of detail though!
Saturn - images taken on 3/1/06 with different settings on the  Toucam Pro (SC1.5).  Each image about 1000 frames, stacked in Registax and processed in Photoshop.
Saturn - images taken on 14/1/06.  Can see some cloud detail! Each image about 1000 frames, stacked in Registax and processed in Photoshop.
Saturn - images taken on 8/2/06 Each image about 1000 frames, stacked in Registax and processed in Photoshop.
Latest images taken on 6th February 2007 with the Skywatcher 130 with Celestron SLT computerised mount. 1500 frames multipoint in Registax 4
	Saturn image taken on 12/3/07 with the Skywatcher ST80. This is the best of about 3000 frames stacked in Registax using a 50 frame stacked reference.
Saturn's Moons   25/1/06 1) Dione, 2) Titan, 3) BY Cancri, 4) Rhea, 5) TYC1395-1199-1, 6) Enceladus and 7) Tethys. If you look really hard at the point midway between 2 and 5 (slightly towards 2) there is a very slight brightening that's due to Hyperion. (Thanks to Pete UKAI for labeling my image) The image was taken from about 400 frames @ 15fps, stacked in Registax3.  The Toucam was used at prime focus on the Skywatcher 130m without a barlow or anything.

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