[ATMoB-discuss] Saturn under various seeing conditions

[Steve Beckwith]

Over the past few years, I've taken note of all the wonderful planetary
images being taken and processed in various areas of the world.   On
very rare occasions, some of my images "approach" the quality of those
great images.  Most of the time, my images range from lousy all the way
up to average.     I probably have about 100GBytes of raw data and a
handful of really decent images.   I used to wonder what I was doing
wrong;  collimation?  Ir filter, the webcam?, image processing? etc.,
etc.    The largest factor came down to something I couldn't control -
the "seeing" conditions of the atmosphere.   The real trick to
successful, high-resolution astrophotography is to get out and image
every chance you can in hopes of hitting one of the rare New England
evenings that has excellent seeing conditions.   

I've begun posting images in the Astronomy Gallery on the ATMoB website
so club members can get an idea of what results to expect when imaging
under various seeing conditions.  I won't use "Pickering" or any other
standards others have used for describing the seeing.  

Those members are also using a webcam may these images useful as an idea
of what someone else is doing under various seeing conditions.   No need
to comment on the quality, I know most of them will be garbage.
Normally I would say "enjoy the nice pictures", but.