Best photos of Saturn yet.

Last Thursday I took my Microsoft Lifecam with me when I went to Stardome.

After the show and the telescope viewing I hooked it up to one of the telescopes we use and recorded some videos of Saturn.

Here are the processed images from those videos.

And here is a video showing the raw video, the video after PIPP processing and the final image.

2nd attempt at processing Saturn.

Had another go at processing one of my Saturn videos.
Tried a few different settings this time.

Photo after Rexistax processing.

Photo after Photoshop processing.

I think the funky colours in the second image is chromatic aberration from the Galileoscope's lens.

The Moon.

After the success I had with PIPP and processing my Saturn videos I decided to have a crack at processing one of my Moon videos.

And here is the processed image.

I think it came out rather well. I might have to do a few more moon photos now.

Galileoscope + Webcam = Saturn on a budget.

A little while ago I managed to capture some images of Staurn through my Galileoscope and a Microsoft Lifecam.

Below is one of those captures.

This was taken without a barlow (as it was hard enough trying to get Saturn onto the sensor to begin with).

I had a few attempts to process them but had no luck so kinda gave up on them... Then the other day I found out about PIPP (Planetary Imaging PreProcessor) so decided to run my videos through it and then have another try at processing them.

I have to say, using PIPP made a world of difference and Registax processed the videos much better than before.

I still have no idea what I'm doing so just basically played around but here are the results.

The only software used was PIPP and Registax.

I have to say, for a $30 telescope and a $75 webcam, the results are rather pleasing.

Milky Way - Take 2

Had another attempt at photographing and processing the Milky Way a few nights ago.
Heres the results.

The Milky Way