Moon/Saturn Occultation Video

[alexch]

Hi All,

I finished editing the Moon/Saturn occultation video and it is up on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/95528617

There was high thin cloud that spoiled the contrast somewhat and the seeing was pretty average.

I shot RAW for both stills and video and worked out that I can overexpose the Moon by 2 f/stops and do a bit of tone mapping to get features on both Moon and Saturn.

Done with two telescopes:
1) Full disk of the Moon with Stellarvue SVT80 f/6 + 2x teleconverter, Sony NEX5N 1 FPS shooting, 50x real speed playback
2) 22" SDM f/3.6 with Canon 6D in 5x crop RAW video mode (Magic Lantern). 12.5 FPS video recording, 8x real speed playback

A video frame is attached (downsized from 1920x1080 to fit into 250KB limit)

Cheers,
Alex

[CapturingTheNight]

So awesome Alex. One of the best, if not the best, video of this event I have seen yet.

[h0ughy]

great work there

[noswonky]

Great images and very nicely edited.

[allan gould]

Excellent, best I've seen.
Allan

[gbeal]

Absolutely stunning, well done.
I attempted an animation as well, I'm still working on it, but after seeing this mine pales.
Gary

[RAJAH235]

Ab.Fab, Alex.

A really excellent result.

Thank you.

[ozalba]

I'd say that worked pretty well. I've been processing to a fairly dark lunar image with bracketed exposures, but I think this result gives a more natural impression of the brightness difference between the two bodies, while giving us plenty of lunar detail to satisfy.

*where's the emoticon for gold star?*

[RB]

Alex that's stunning.

:)

[Retrograde]

Simply brilliant!

[multiweb]

Superb capture Alex. I was surprised to see colors in your video capture. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[WadeH]

That was a superb video Alex.
I hope to be able to see my first Saturn occulation in August 2014.

[edwardsdj]

Excellent video Alex. One of the best I've seen.

[Logieberra]

Very nice Alex!

Separately, Magic Lantern on 6D? Is that an Alpha, very early days build?

[rustigsmed]

amazing work alex!

[hickny]

Thanks for posting the image and link. Your video is amazing!

[alexch]

Thanks guys for your kind comments - much appreciated!

[alexch]

Thanks!

No, it is not alpha any more and is part of the nightly builds on magilantern.fm
There are few glitches when displaying the RAW video but nothing major.

[iceman]

That's brilliant Alex! So well done!

[starrylady]

Hi Alex,
What a fantastic job you did with this movie! Can I have permission to use it in my lectures on Princess Cruises please? (email to starrylady@hotmail.com if you would, ta).
Cheers
Lesa

[sungrazer]

I love the effort you went to to get the sound files as well.

brilliant

cheers
Karen

[Uran]

Fantastic imagery.

[Asso]

The picture was great alex and well done the video was impressive. Does anyone know when the same event may happen next?

[ozalba]

Brett, the next one is on Aug 4, beginning around 21:15 in Brisbane area. Dark limb disappearance, so less challenging to photograph.