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Old 13-05-2014, 10:44 PM
pw (Peter)
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My first saturn

I recently got a Point Grey Grasshopper 3 2.8 Mp Mono camera for solar imaging. Of course now there is no sun, or if there is I'm at work.

So tonight I jammed the c mount into the eyepiece holder of my 8" dob with a bit of PVC hose cut to take up the slack and tried imaging Saturn.
I've been looking at Saturn on clear nights and it's a pretty special sight, so I hoped I could get a half decent picture of it.

Anyway, shot a few AVIs of around 15 seconds and had a go at them with AutoStakkert 2, opened the resulting TIF files in Photoshop and cropped and adjusted the best one of the files. Ended up with a small but pleasing (to me at least) JPG which I'll add here as evidence of my work.
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