Here's the first processed image from the titan transit last night. Poor seeing prevented me from getting much worthwhile data before this point, so I lost most of titans shadow.
But I think I got Dione in transit, so that's a nice bonus.
Thanks Anthony. Nice capture. Well I'm now satisfied that I wouldn't have picked up Dione or Enceladus on the planet visually, so am glad I was clouded out later in the night and retreated to bed.
Absolutly stunning work, a credit to you.
Appart from some high cirrus early on, it was a good night out here. I took my last avi at 16:10 UTC. Have a mountain of data, even some possible storm or cloud structure in the SEBZ.
I love the detail in your image and am blown away that you picked up Dione on your RGB image, I only have it on my R channel images, think I have Enceladus also, but only a hint of it, again on the R channel.
Is this image with your old setup or is this a new CCD?
Shame you are so far away, I would love to drop in for a chat.
Well done Anthony, I thought you said you did not have anything???
Only criticism is I think the planet is a little on the blue side for my taste. Great to see a couple of guys got an image.
This is probably one of the few images taken over the 4 hour period of the transit that's any good - the conditions were very unstable for most of the time. I might get one other good image from around 2am local time but not likely to get much more out of the data.
Trevor, I'd love to have a catchup sometime, maybe at a star party somewhere... or if one of us is passing through, not that I'm likely to get to Broken Hill anytime soon :-) But if you're ever around Canberra then give me a yell.
This was taken with my 13.1" scope (LEXX) and the Dragonfly2 PGR camera. 60 seconds per channel, at 25fps in R and G, 20fps in B. Stacked and processed the best 1000 frames from each channel as chosen by ninox.
As a relative newbie to planetary photography, but have dabbled a little into deeper space, I'm a little intrigued as to why Titan (and Diane)appear(s) so dark against Saturn, given they are both/all illuminated by the same source. Is this an issue of relative contrast or am I missing something?
