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

--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk