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Old 18-05-2014, 10:59 PM
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8 hr time-lapse of Saturn's Moons

Last night i set up my scope to take around 8 hours of images of Saturn and processed it into a 16 second time-lapse. The goal was to capture the orbit of some of the inner moons. The project was somewhat successful with Tethys, Dione, Enceladus, Rhea and to some extent Titan showing significant movement. It was also interesting to observe the movement of Saturn against the background stars.
The cloud started to roll in around 2:30 so i had to shut up shop a little early

Video is available on Youtube. Hope you all enjoy

http://youtu.be/jE4kq4X336M

details are:
F4 10" newt with 2X powermate
QHY5L-ii autoguider
Canon 600D
NEQ6

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9 seconds
ISO 800
Pause 400 seconds
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Last edited by acarleton; 19-05-2014 at 04:20 PM.
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