Saturn + 4 moons, 21/01/2006

[iceman]

More data, more processing..

This one is from the morning of the 21st January also.. After taking about 8 avi's of Saturn with the 5x powermate, I had a look through the eyepiece again and saw that 4 moons were clustered quite close to the planet.

So I slipped the 3x barlow in (instead of the 5x powermate) to get a wider FOV and catch the moons.

This image is a composite of 2 avi's - one avi's with gain at 100% to bring out the moons, and one avi at normal exposure for the planet.

The moons avi was simply stacked in registax, while the planet avi went through a normal post-process routine.

The 2 were made into 1 via photoshop, and the levels of the moons image was adjusted to remove the blue background (due to the high gain). As a consequence, the moons turned green :) Can't win them all :)

Comments welcome.

[davidpretorius]

gee that looks fantastic. space is ever changing and i do not think we shall ever get bored!!!

[ving]

Gasp!

great stuff mike. i doubt anyone else is doing this good with a dob! :D

[rumples riot]

Nice image Mike. Luck must be on your side, you got the chance to image.

[[1ponders]]

Clever man. Make the most of that fine weather while you can Mike. And when your finished with it send it up here. :lol:

[iceman]

Thanks guys.. still have the full size 5x powermate captured images to process! Hopefully they'll turn out well, it's going to take ages to get through them.

[Rodstar]

Not bad. :P C'mon mate, when are you gonna let the rest of the astrophotographers a chance to catch up with you!? :prey2:

[RB]

He goes for the jugular doesn't he Rod?

Mike they're fantastic images mate.

:drink:

[robin]

Very good Mike.Impressive stuff.

[Robert_T]

Thanks Mike, these ones with moons are great.:) How do you get the moons captured - do you see them if you run just under saturation say 24-50 on the light meter in K3CCDtools?