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Old 23-01-2006, 03:56 PM
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Saturn + 4 moons, 21/01/2006

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.
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