Contains:  Solar system body or event
Saturn - 8/28/2021, jimwgram

Saturn - 8/28/2021

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Finally got a couple clear nights with relatively decent seeing, and used a bahtinov mask to get better focus than on my previous attempts.
Got 3422 frames at just 14 fps (70 ms exposures), and was able to stack 50% of the frames with reasonable quality.

Not sure if this approach makes sense, but, as a "newbie", after struggling to sharpen the stacked images consistently in Registax6 without them being too grainy/noisy, I've found that I can concentrate just on sharpening and not worry too much about tweaking the image to clean up all of the noise in Registax, and instead run it through Topaz DeNoise AI (Low Light mode), and it does a great job of taking care of the final touches.  I also used Photoshop to warm the image a bit with a Photo filter.

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Saturn - 8/28/2021, jimwgram