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Saturn and Moons
This was my first attempt at Saturn and its moons, for this image I used prime focus to get a wide field view and took two series of images. The first image of Saturn was 200 frames the moons we're 400 frames with the web cam amp at 50% exposure 1/33rd of a second.
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Filename:CJSSaturnMoons20040115.gif
Album name:CSuddell / Saturn
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Link-words:Saturn
Image date, time and location:14/01/2004
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:Europa 8" F4.4, prime focus, 2 sets of images captured in K3CCD, 200 frames for Saturn and 400 frames for the moons, stacked using Registax, then combined in Photoshop using Contrast/Brightness masks to bring out the darker moons. In the raw moons image
File Size:17 KB
Date added:Jan 20, 2004
Dimensions:647 x 487 pixels
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