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Saturn



DAYTIME IMAGE!
11:15 EDT October 21, 2007.
SXV-H9 camera on 3.5" Questar (~f/15)
R=239 x 0.02 second
Saturn1-RegStax3.jpg   Saturn1-SDMask-bright.jpg


01:24 UT February 26, 2004.
SXV-H9 camera on 3.5" Questar w/ 2x and 1.5x Barlows (~f/45)
L=500 x 0.2 second, R=G=B=100 x 0.2 second
Unsharp mask, shown with North up

saturnSXV3_LRGB.jpg
               
saturnSXV3_LRGB_3xsmooth_UM.jpg
Traditional Processing
Rotational Averaging


03:32 UT January 11, 2004.
MX-916 camera on 3.5" Questar w/ 2x and 1.5x Barlows (~f/45)
Image scale = 0.28 arcseconds/pixel.
L=222 x 1.0 second, R=G=B=75 x 3.0 second
Unsharp mask, shown with North up
Moons Tethys (upper right) and Dione (lower right) are also captured in this shot.
saturn2moonsLRGB.jpg


1:53am November 21, 2002.
PC-164C video camera on 3.5" Questar
Eyepiece projection w/ 16mm Brandon eyepiece (~f/45)
L=R=G=B=100 x 0.1 second
Unsharp mask, gamma scaling (1.5), kernel smoothing (lpm)
saturnB.jpg saturnB_LRGB.jpg


4:46am October 09, 2001.
Starlight Express MX-916 camera 3.5" Questar
Eyepiece projection w/ 8mm Brandon eyepiece (~f/90)
40 x 0.5 second exposures
Unsharp mask (low pass more 90%) and gamma scaling
saturn.jpg


November 12, 2001.
Starlight Express MX-916 camera 3.5" Questar
Eyepiece projection w/ 8mm Brandon eyepiece (f/90)
L=80x0.2sec, R=40x0.2sec, G=40x0.2sec, B=40x0.2sec
saturnLRGB.jpg

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