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Old 12-08-2019, 05:59 PM
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Hi Marc

Thanks for alerting me to this event (via e-mail), I would have missed it otherwise.

I captured an AVI of the Moon's limb just after Saturn disappeared, with exposure set for the Moon so I hope I can make a composite later.

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Nice! I tweaked the frame rate to get a dim saturn but bright enough and trying not to burn the highlights on the moon. Not sure what will come out of it but I shot plenty so I might get lucky.
Gotta say I was a little disappointed not being able to see the moons. The stellarium animation looked really good. I though yeah that's gonna look awesome. But reality was hard yakka just to get Saturn and the moon.
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Old 12-08-2019, 06:18 PM
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Here is a quick and dirty composite from the back garden.

Not sure if I have processed this correctly as I don't have a good handle on the ASI 224 MC just yet.

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Old 12-08-2019, 06:19 PM
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Nice! I tweaked the frame rate to get a dim saturn but bright enough and trying not to burn the highlights on the moon. Not sure what will come out of it but I shot plenty so I might get lucky.
Gotta say I was a little disappointed not being able to see the moons. The stellarium animation looked really good. I though yeah that's gonna look awesome. But reality was hard yakka just to get Saturn and the moon.
Hah - yes, I gave up on the moons of Saturn as soon as the over-exposed lunar limb hit the edge of the frame.

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Old 12-08-2019, 06:27 PM
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Here is a quick and dirty composite from the back garden.

Not sure if I have processed this correctly as I don't have a good handle on the ASI 224 MC just yet.

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Geez! That is very neat!
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Old 12-08-2019, 06:52 PM
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GREAT view of the Occultation tonight in my 130mm Triplet Apo..with my Takahashi TOE ORTHO 4mm beating my 3mm Delite for Contrast!
910mm focal length scope..WOW views both sides of the Moon.
Now for a look in the CPC 925!
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Old 12-08-2019, 06:53 PM
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Here is a quick and dirty composite from the back garden.

Not sure if I have processed this correctly as I don't have a good handle on the ASI 224 MC just yet.

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Lovely ..saw all the banding in my scopes!
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Old 12-08-2019, 06:54 PM
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Geez! That is very neat!
Hi Marc

What a shock to see Saturn pop out of the other side - no dark terminator to moderate the brightness difference.

I almost burned out the screen!

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Old 12-08-2019, 07:03 PM
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What a shock to see Saturn pop out of the other side - no dark terminator to moderate the brightness difference.

I almost burned out the screen!

Cheers

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I know. Me too. I was waiting for it then looked at the time and thought bloody hell it should be here already. Sure enough by slowing down the frame rate I saw half a smudge. I had to completely burn the moon limb to see Saturn, barely. Big difference from the ingress. Nearly missed it on its way out. I tried to look for Titan prior. Good luck with that.
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Old 12-08-2019, 07:22 PM
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I know. Me too. I was waiting for it then looked at the time and thought bloody hell it should be here already. Sure enough by slowing down the frame rate I saw half a smudge. I had to completely burn the moon limb to see Saturn, barely. Big difference from the ingress. Nearly missed it on its way out. I tried to look for Titan prior. Good luck with that.
Hi Marc

I have found that when I try to stack the AVIs in AS!3 using COG, the burned out lunar limb causes some aligning and stacking problems, so I switched to Surface and anchored the Green Box on Saturn and that has worked for the 1 AVI I just processed with Saturn close to the burned out limb.

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Used a dslr for the ingress and was able to get a good compromise with exposure of the moon and saturn in a single shot. Switched camera to the zwo120mm for the egress and couldn't get anything till I burned out the moon. Here's the burnt moon and a composite. A hard task but good fun doing something different, no second chances with these events it's all over in a flash.
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Old 12-08-2019, 08:02 PM
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Here is a quick and dirty composite from the back garden.

Not sure if I have processed this correctly as I don't have a good handle on the ASI 224 MC just yet.

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master class the image difference between both is huge
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Old 12-08-2019, 08:19 PM
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Ah, what the heck...

Phone pointing into a 14mm Vixen SSW in an Intes 715D Mak.

Yeah, as Rick said, had to burn out the Moon in order to pick up Saturn.

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Old 12-08-2019, 08:19 PM
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Used a dslr for the ingress and was able to get a good compromise with exposure of the moon and saturn in a single shot. Switched camera to the zwo120mm for the egress and couldn't get anything till I burned out the moon. Here's the burnt moon and a composite. A hard task but good fun doing something different, no second chances with these events it's all over in a flash.
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Really nice work Rick - you have shown the dynamic range so well with these shots and I love the composition - top stuff.

A difficult day at the office eh!

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Old 12-08-2019, 08:40 PM
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Here's a quick stack of one of the videos. I reckon I can work with what I've got tonight and get some nice frames. Still transfering from the laptop. So many files...
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Old 12-08-2019, 08:51 PM
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Here's a quick stack of one of the videos. I reckon I can work with what I've got tonight and get some nice frames. Still transfering from the laptop. So many files...
Oh my, Marc, that is just lovely. Congrats on balancing the extremes of light so well. Moon is sharp as.

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Old 12-08-2019, 08:54 PM
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Here is a matching pair from very close to the Ingress and Egress phases.

Both are compositions of dual shots exposed for the Moon and then shots exposed for Saturn. The light bleeding into the frame from the Moon made it quite challenging to get the optimum exposure for Saturn and then blending the 2 together took all the might of Photoshop.

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Old 12-08-2019, 09:09 PM
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Ah, what the heck...

Phone pointing into a 14mm Vixen SSW in an Intes 715D Mak.

Yeah, as Rick said, had to burn out the Moon in order to pick up Saturn.

Alex.
Great phone shots Alexander, they really do show the massive difference in size and brightness of these two objects.

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Old 12-08-2019, 09:34 PM
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300 gig of data and i still cant process them properly. this is a composite image of the night - the first of many to process. there are many excellent images taken of this tonight - sadly none were mine.

ed80 with asi174mm . still have heaps to process taken with gstar ex3
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Here is a matching pair from very close to the Ingress and Egress phases.

Both are compositions of dual shots exposed for the Moon and then shots exposed for Saturn. The light bleeding into the frame from the Moon made it quite challenging to get the optimum exposure for Saturn and then blending the 2 together took all the might of Photoshop.

Cheers

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Those shots are excellent, love the second one the moon is so crisp.
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Old 12-08-2019, 09:45 PM
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300 gig of data and i still cant process them properly. this is a composite image of the night - the first of many to process. there are many excellent images taken of this tonight - sadly none were mine.

ed80 with asi174mm . still have heaps to process taken with gstar ex3
Hi Dave

I'd hate to be your IT Support with that amount of data.

That is a stunning wider field view with excellent contrast and detail, well done.

I'm off to bed now, way too much excitement for one night.

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