I was pleasantly surprised with this image of Saturn. Taken on the same night as the previous post but instead of a webcam I used a Canon 40D looking through my 4" Meade Etx scope tethered to a program called eos_movrec which produces an AVI movie. At first glance the movie looked to bright and lacking any detail but after using a program called PIPP then Registax with some wavelet adjustments this image popped out.
For reference, the image below is one frame of the 1242 frames used to make this image. The frame is of an average quality. Some frames were much more distorted than this one. It show how bad the "seeing" was that night and also shows how good this software is at extracting the planet from the distorted view through our turbulent atmosphere.
Hopefully when "seeing" conditions improve I can get an even better image. That's what make astronomy and astrophotography so interesting. If it was easy it wouldn't interest me.
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