Saturn before and during this morning's occultation

Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

[C-14 @ f/33, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-0M, Astronomik LRGB - in this case the
L channel is an average of the R & G channels. Seeing 7/10,
transparency 7-8/10]

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/saturn/...52-41_RGBa.jpg

Imaging the occultation itself was always going to be a tricky affair
due to the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon. As
such I decided to go for a beauty (rather than scientific) shot and
create the following composite. All components were imaged between
01:00 and 03:00. The most important shot was a 10s (@60fps) AVI
capture showing the position of a properly exposed Saturn against a
burnt out Moon. All images were taken at f/11.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...single_800.jpg

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Brilliant Pete. Rather puts my results in their place.

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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

[C-14 @ f/33, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-0M, Astronomik LRGB - in this case the
L channel is an average of the R & G channels. Seeing 7/10,
transparency 7-8/10]

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/saturn/...52-41_RGBa.jpg

Imaging the occultation itself was always going to be a tricky affair
due to the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon. As
such I decided to go for a beauty (rather than scientific) shot and
create the following composite. All components were imaged between
01:00 and 03:00. The most important shot was a 10s (@60fps) AVI
capture showing the position of a properly exposed Saturn against a
burnt out Moon. All images were taken at f/11.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...single_800.jpg

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In article , Pete Lawrence wrote:
Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

[C-14 @ f/33, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-0M, Astronomik LRGB - in this case the
L channel is an average of the R & G channels. Seeing 7/10,
transparency 7-8/10]

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/saturn/...52-41_RGBa.jpg

Imaging the occultation itself was always going to be a tricky affair
due to the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon. As
such I decided to go for a beauty (rather than scientific) shot and
create the following composite. All components were imaged between
01:00 and 03:00. The most important shot was a 10s (@60fps) AVI
capture showing the position of a properly exposed Saturn against a
burnt out Moon. All images were taken at f/11.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...single_800.jpg


Oh, nice one Pete - well done!

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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

[C-14 @ f/33, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-0M, Astronomik LRGB - in this case the
L channel is an average of the R & G channels. Seeing 7/10,
transparency 7-8/10]

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/saturn/...52-41_RGBa.jpg

Imaging the occultation itself was always going to be a tricky affair
due to the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon. As
such I decided to go for a beauty (rather than scientific) shot and
create the following composite. All components were imaged between
01:00 and 03:00. The most important shot was a 10s (@60fps) AVI
capture showing the position of a properly exposed Saturn against a
burnt out Moon. All images were taken at f/11.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...single_800.jpg

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Fabulous Pete. Unfortunately, we were clouded out here in the West of
Scotand.

Bob H

Pete Lawrence wrote:
Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

[C-14 @ f/33, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-0M, Astronomik LRGB - in this case the
L channel is an average of the R & G channels. Seeing 7/10,
transparency 7-8/10]

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/saturn/...52-41_RGBa.jpg

Imaging the occultation itself was always going to be a tricky affair
due to the difference in brightness between Saturn and the Moon. As
such I decided to go for a beauty (rather than scientific) shot and
create the following composite. All components were imaged between
01:00 and 03:00. The most important shot was a 10s (@60fps) AVI
capture showing the position of a properly exposed Saturn against a
burnt out Moon. All images were taken at f/11.

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...single_800.jpg


Pete,

Both images are stunning. That Saturn you captured is truly impressive!

Anthony.

Pete Lawrence nous a donc écrit :

Hi all,

Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn. Here's a work-in-progress result from before the event...

Nice weather over Sesley.
You're always as lucky, it's raining since the start of the week here (
Wonderful pictures as usual.

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Pete Lawrence wrote:
Seeing was reasonably good before this morning's lunnar occultation of
Saturn.

Superb composite, Pete; Congratulations!

Best,
Stephen

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Pete,

Incredibly sharp. Good work!

Ben

I happen to like your digital composed results of the following image,
whereas Dave Smith's terrific image is perhaps more true to life as seen by
the human eye or by that of his camera's eye, whereas it simply needs some
tender loving PhotoShop in order to crank up the overall contrast.
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/occulta...ite-single_800.
jpg

Dave Smith's more optically natural image of having obtained the moon and
Saturn within the very same FOV and thereby having shared the same exposure
is what actually shows best, that one of the sufficient specks that should
have been within the absolutely crystal clear and otherwise black
NASA/Apollo sky, as obtained by any number of their unfiltered EVA Kodak
moments, should have been entirely capable of those having included a
look-see at having recorded the likes of Saturn existing somewhere above
that physically dark lunar horizon.
http://www.graviton.demon.co.uk/imag...rged_2270s.jpg

Jupiter/Moon occultation
Other than having created an incorrect JPG image file name, as taken by
Becky Coretti with Bill Williams, using a 15" Obsession and a Tom O Compact
Platform. A ToUCam was used with a TeleVue 4x Powermate. For some reason
this image file got itself improperly named as "moon.saturn.jpg", but
otherwise properly published as being that of our moon and Jupiter.
http://www.equatorialplatforms.com/moon.saturn.jpg
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Brad Guth