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Saturn From Last Night also in Good Seeing. Yay!

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#1 Mikeiss

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Posted 05 September 2024 - 03:21 PM

The seeing was pretty good last night as the title suggests. I tried getting Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, but the latter two were still pretty low. Mars is especially hard since it's so tiny, even the 3x barlow. Anyways I took several videos of Saturn and ended up with a few that are pretty decent. I used my 8" Cave Astrola with my 3x Televue Barlow and my ASI120MC-S. The first image is the best 10% of 12,000 frames. The second is just a 1.5x drizzle of the first. And lastly I combined that with a high exposure video to get the moons, very lazily mind yousmile.gif I still think it's cool. There were also more moons that could be seen if I cranked up the levels in Photoshop, but so did some unwanted stuff. Also I may have gone a little crazy on the first image as it looks a little over processed. What do you think CN peeps? As always thanks for looking and clear skies.

 

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Posted 05 September 2024 - 03:45 PM

Nice captures. That makes getting up early or staying up late, worthwhile 


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Posted 05 September 2024 - 04:37 PM

Nice captures. That makes getting up early or staying up late, worthwhile 

Thanks for compliment, and I do concur about the staying up late partsmile.gif 




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