Saturn + five moons

[michaelmorris]

Tonight I noticed that Saturn had five of it's larger moons all nicely scunched up close, so I decided to try to capture them all in an image. I used my Meade DSI to take 30 x 3 seconds subs to capture the moons (Top picture).

I then masked out the overexposed image of Saturn and replaced it with a webcam image I took of Saturn on 30th March. The resulting composite image is shown in the bottom picture.

[algol]

good effort that mate, very nice indeed

[Ant]

Very impressive!

I like that composite very much!

Ant

[jgs001]

superb composite, very nice

[dogfish]

Nice

[Sam]

Five moons! - great stuff!

[beamish]

Cool .Well done Michael !!

[qcdougn]

Well done, I like the final composite very much... I gotta learn how to do that mask trick in PS 6. Got any steps-instructions.

Doug