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.
Cheers
Dennis
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.
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.
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!
Bigjoe.
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
Dennis
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.
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.
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.
Rick
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.
Rick
Really nice work Rick - you have shown the dynamic range so well with these shots and I love the composition - top stuff.
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...
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.
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.
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
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
Dennis
Those shots are excellent, love the second one the moon is so crisp.
Rick
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.