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Saturn on June 30, 2018, JDJ

Saturn on June 30, 2018

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Description

Imaged Jupiter and Saturn on the night of June 30, 2018. This was the second of two nights of the best seeing we've had in the DC area in many months. Seeing was 4 or 5 according to Clear Dark Sky, but not quite as good on this second night.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, custom Siebert 2x barlow, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IRcut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. This imaging train gives me ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture. Stacking in AutoStakkert3. Deconvolved in Fitswork4. Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. Lastly, derotated and combined 3 frames in WinJupos10.9 to generate the final image. Each of the individual images is a stack of the best 25% of ~8,000 frames captured over 240 seconds.

FireCapture v2.5 Settings

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Camera=ZWO ASI224MC

Filter=UV-IRCut

Profile=Saturn

Diameter=18.28"

Magnitude=0.03

CMI=31.3° CMIII=323.4° (during mid of capture)

FocalLength=5300mm (F/26)

Resolution=0.15"

Filename=2018-06-30-0309_3-J-UV-IRCut.avi

Date=2018_06_30

Start=030722.042

Mid=030922.049

End=031122.057

Start(UT)=030722.042

Mid(UT)=030922.049

End(UT)=031122.057

Duration=240.015s

Date_format=yyyy_MM_dd

Time_format=HHmmss

LT=UT -5h

Frames captured=8001

File type=AVI

Extended AVI mode=true

Compressed AVI=false

Binning=no

ROI=388x326

ROI(Offset)=0x0

FPS (avg.)=33

Shutter=30.00ms

Gain=340 (56%)

HighSpeed=on

WRed=52

SoftwareGain=10 (off)

AutoHisto=75 (off)

USBTraffic=100

Gamma=50

Brightness=1

AutoExposure=off

HardwareBin=off

WBlue=95

Histogramm(min)=0

Histogramm(max)=131

Histogramm=51%

Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a

Limit=240 Seconds

Sensor temperature=32.5 °C

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Saturn on June 30, 2018, JDJ

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