Saturn + 4 moons, 21/01/2006

iceman (Mike) · #1 23-01-2006, 03:56 PM

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 · #2 23-01-2006, 04:41 PM

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

ving (David) · #3 23-01-2006, 04:45 PM

Gasp!

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

rumples riot · #4 23-01-2006, 04:48 PM

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

[1ponders] (Paul) · #5 23-01-2006, 05:28 PM

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

iceman (Mike) · #6 23-01-2006, 07:17 PM

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 (Rod) · #7 23-01-2006, 08:40 PM

Not bad.

C'mon mate, when are you gonna let the rest of the astrophotographers a chance to catch up with you!?

RB (Andrew) · #8 23-01-2006, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rodstar

Not bad.

C'mon mate, when are you gonna let the rest of the astrophotographers a chance to catch up with you!?

He goes for the jugular doesn't he Rod?

Mike they're fantastic images mate.

robin · #9 23-01-2006, 10:25 PM

Very good Mike.Impressive stuff.

Robert_T · #10 24-01-2006, 04:56 PM

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?