Titan and shadow transit

[firstlight]

Hi all, I must have lucked out with the weather tonight.

Started off pretty poor, but had quite a reasonable session sometime after 22:00... I've only stacked a few of the runs and done some minimal processing... probably too yellow, tell us what you think.

Originals, then 150% resize in Registax, dropped the saturation and tweeked the contrast on PS CS2.

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[Dennis]

Nice work Tony. I packed up around 10:00pm due to clouds so it’s good to see your results. I did have a visual peek as I was packing up, and although the seeing was jelly like due to the low altitude at that time, I could see the silhouette of Titan and the shadow cast on Saturn’s disc during the moments of steadier seeing.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Well done Tony, nicely captured.

[h0ughy]

one of the few to get this - well done

[AstroJunk]

Well done Tony - it was a night of sucker holes for me. Every time I contemplated setting up, the clouds rolled back in ..

[Quark]

Nice work Tony,
Clearly captured Titan and it's shadow.
Nice and sharp and detailed banding, colour looks fine.

Regards
Trevor

[rwong]

Nice work. You were very lucky. It was clouded out in Melb.:(

[edwardsdj]

Great that you were able to capture this event.

[firstlight]

Thanks for the encouragement.

Animation coming... watch this space.

[firstlight]

Here is the animation of my capture.

91 sequences 5 fps x 60 seconds. Vixen 102m, 2 x Barlow, modded TouCam Pro, captured with K3CCD. Stacked and resized 150% in Registax 4, dropped saturation in PS CS2, animated with Animation Shop 2.

The animation is hosted on Paul Floyd's astronomy education website.

http://www.nightskyonline.info/blog/2009/february/2_2009_blog.html

[Dennis]

That is really quite an excellent animation Tony. Well done for capturing the data and assembling it, to produce such a superb record of this rare event.

Now go get some sleep!

Cheers

Dennis