Hi All,
last weekend on the Friday night I set up to do some planetary imaging and try to catch the opposition of Saturn. The seeing was pretty good due to a break in the jet stream so it was a chance to see what I could capture with my scope's modest (by planetary-imaging standards) 190mm aperture.
I took the opportunity to capture some of Saturn's moons using a wider ROI window and used the second stack to create a HDR-composite. I hadn't tried that before and getting the exposure right was quite tricky with Mimas so close to the blown-out image of Saturn. I didn't seem to pick up Iapetus or Hyperion even though they should have been within the frame - more exposure required perhaps?
Telescope: Skywatcher MN190, 4 x Powermate
Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Exposure: Best 2800 of 8000 frames captured in Sharpcap, (best 500 of 3000 for the moons).
C & CC welcome,
Pete