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Saturn: What Your Budget Sees

From 19 × 9 pixels to rings clear of the globe, raw and final

    Saturn Index Tick what you can see.

    The captures

    What each rung is, and what it is not

    1. R4 · Orion XX16g 16-inchFinal: my processed stack of the best 10% of this capture, rings turned level, its globe colour matched to the C8's.Capture: the same SER from my full-length colour export, held still (untracked scope), with one fixed white balance on the planet to take out the green cast.
    2. R3 · Celestron C8 EdgeHDFinal: my processed stack of the best 10% of this capture, rings turned level.Capture: every frame of the same SER, from my full-length colour export.
    3. R2 · Seestar S50 ProFinal: the best of the raw frames stacked, native pixels: 19 × 9 pixels of Saturn.Raw: the original RAW AVI of the same capture.
    4. R1 · Seestar S30 ProFinal: the best of the raw frames stacked, native pixels (every square is one recorded pixel).Raw: the original RAW AVI of the same capture, after its first clipped frames.

    Every rung is a real capture by Damon. Raw loops: demosaic (the Seestars' RAW AVIs), one sky pedestal, one fixed gain and a translation to hold Saturn on the final's grid; the C8 and 16-inch loops are turned by the final's own fixed angle so the rings sit level, and the 16-inch loop has one fixed white balance on the planet to take out the camera's green cast. Nothing sharpened, stacked or blended, in real time. Prices are US list prices, approximate; a + means part of the rig has no price there.