I'm back! The next night, after my first capture of the year, I headed out again encouraged by the low JS forecast. Seeing wasn't as smooth as the night before, but we tried anyway.
Since seeing was very erratic (not bad, but inconsistent), I had to try various combinations of raw videos and reference times. In total, I had 40 videos, with a total of 1 hour of capture time. After selecting the best, I was left with only 27 videos to integrate into two derotated images. All videos had around 12,500 frames, of which I stacked 10%. Drizzle was not an option. Despite all this and the fact that I spent a few days carefully processing everything I ended up getting these two images:
In the first image, seeing was somewhat better. Enceladus can be seen above Saturn's rings, the transit of Dione and both moon shadows. I processed them separately to make them more visible but it was no easy task. This is part of a raw stack at 150%:
Later on, there was a double transit but I couldn't get Enceladus or its shadow out and Dione was tricky:
Next time I'll check my scope collimation better and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the 07/01 triple transit! Leo.
