Saturn, jupiter and the moon. All firsts!

[Monki]

Me and my friend decided to take advantage of the clear sky last night (albeit slightly dim with the Moon more or less full) Finally I got to see Saturn .....wow! All images are straight out of registax....I'm no photo editor hehe....and were captured with a converted lifecam cinema.

First...the moon

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/Monki77/MoonOK.jpg

This is from the 27th of march. I've messed with the wavelets a few times but last night my friend helped and I (we) got my best image yet.

Onto jupiter

....it was cursed from the word go, but it came out OK for me I think the Neodymium filter helped here as I was shooting from behind a streetlight and a hospitol!

The LED decided to come back to life during filming so I had to convert the final image to mono...but I finally got to see my own (faint) bands.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/Monki77/5-4-12-JupiterBW.jpg

And saving the best till last...

Saturn!

My first time imaging this, let alone even seeing it.

I'd just finished doing a full video of the moon,to hopefully later create a mosaic from it, then we decided to try Saturn as it was just above to house coming Into view at ~1am. Wow....when it popped up on the laptop screen me and my friend were overwhelmed.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/Monki77/SaturnFOSHO.jpg

After we got a few vids we looked ourselves for the full effect...unbelievable.

Special thanks go to my new baader neodymium ir cut filter and celestron lcm 60/700 refracter hehe.

[Monki]

Oh that was painful...last time I use the desktop site on my phone.

[Monki]

I know they're not much compared to most

as a bump I'll also add my first attempted mosaic!

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e193/Monki77/Space/MoonFULL.jpg

Silly me... I missed out 2 small areas when taking my videos

Quite gutted but very happy with myself at the same time!

Sent from a Galaxy S 2 far away.

[Tiddles]

That mosaic is looking pretty good. Had a little play in PS, hope you don't mind.

[Monki]

Wow thank you! I don't mind at all, i didnt even know it could look as good as that! Not only have you filled in the blanks brilliantly, but the image on a whole looks much better...and I now notice my version has a red tint after looking at yours haha.

I need to learn to do touch ups like this

EDIT: I reeeeally need to clean the webcam sensor...

Sent from a Galaxy S 2 far away.

[Monki]

I know I'm flogging a dead horse with this hehe, but I tried again with another Saturn vid i took on the same night. This one was shot at 720 rather then 480 zoomed in.

It's converted to black and White as the original was over saturated and I couldn't fix it in registax.

I think it looks better

[Atlas]

Good stuff.