Saturn with moons from 4th June

[jimbo84]

At the suggestion of des anderson in another thread http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/245743-seeing-more-of-saturn/ I decided to have a go at making a composite of Saturn and some of the moons.

It is a combo of an 8 second exposure to capture the moons, then I had PIPP chose the best 30% of 3000 frames to stack for the planet itself. I had to photoshop it a bit hard to remove the glare, and make Iapetus a bit more visible, so the relative brightnesses are not strictly accurate.

[xtreemchaos]

very nice shot mate,its cool to see the moons.thanks for sharing.

[stargazerlily]

Wow, a super photo indeed.  It never crossed my mind to take two sets of images (one of the moons and one of the planet) and then combine the two together.  Did you combine them in Photoshop?

Thanks for sharing

Pete

[rodrigol]

Just goes to show how good the Mak SLT !

[Pete Presland]

That is excellently done love seeing the moons in planetary images!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice!

[slim80]

Fantastic work .Love seeing saturn with its moon's.