Saturn and 6 moons

Started by aristaeus63, 04/15/2007 03:32PM
Posted 04/15/2007 03:32PM Opening Post
This image is a composite of 3 layers from shots I took on April 2. Layer 1, Saturn, is a stack of 518 frames.

The moons where imaged by increasing the gain on my next Avi. This overexposed Saturn but showed the moons.

Layer 2 is stack of 300 frames. I used multipoint, with one box around Saturn and one around Titan. This kept the moons fairly small points of light. I used this layer for all the moons except Mimas.

Layer 3 is a stack of 1000 frames from the same Avi. I used this to image Mimas.

I put it all together using Photoshop 7.

Andreas

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DSOs observed:
NGCs 2005, ICs 103, Other 70, Palomar GCs 6, Abell PNs 12, Herschel 400: 316.
Equipment
Celestron CPC 1100, Lunt 60mm Ha Solar Scope