tips on capturing Titan?

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone had any quick tips on capturing Saturn and titan in the same 'image'?

My setup is a 12"SW dob goto, with my camera being a canon 600d eos (5x telvue and 2x barlow). I do have magic lantern uploaded.


some of my saturn captures can be seen below
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8033665...in/photostream

I pretty much never see it in my video files, although i accidentially stumbled across it once when i zoomed into a processed tiff image with the brightness up...

cheers

rusty

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

You need th PM Paul Haese! He'll definitely help you.

From my limited experience, I needed to set up my equipment differently to image a planet and then the associated moon. Then layer them in together afterwards. Perhaps there is another trick to do it in the one instance, however, as their associated surface brightnesses are very different, I cannot see how to do this another way.

PM Paul for expert advice. Or go to his website, just Google him.

PS: your Saturn image is very good.

Steve

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by stevous67

You need th PM Paul Haese! He'll definitely help you.

From my limited experience, I needed to set up my equipment differently to image a planet and then the associated moon. Then layer them in together afterwards. Perhaps there is another trick to do it in the one instance, however, as their associated surface brightnesses are very different, I cannot see how to do this another way.

PM Paul for expert advice. Or go to his website, just Google him.

PS: your Saturn image is very good.

Steve

thanks for the tips and kind words Steve. I've checked out Paul's website - he has a great 'how to' section on planetary processing. Which i will take advantage of, especially with my 'post registax' processing

i've also sent him a PM -

cheers

Rusty