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Saturn and five moons

 
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Sep 04, 2018 02:47 |  #1

I've taken a lot of photos of Saturn, and never thought about the moons orbiting it, but last week, I took some photos of it on three successive nights, and noticed that some of the "stars" around Saturn seemed to have moved around, and realized that they were actually moons. I confirmed that they were moons by comparing my images to zoomed-in views of Saturn with Stellarium. So, the next night, I set up my heavier tracker with my telescope to get the images a bit larger. I took a lot of pictures to expose for the moons and stars, but that bloated Saturn to the point that the nearest moons were covered by the overexposed planet. I took some more that were exposed for Saturn, and then cloned that image to the one with the stars. Saturn was tiny, as photographed, so I enlarged it by 1.5x so it would look like it's supposed to look, and cloned the larger version onto the image with the stars and moon. The bloat also covered the moons, Mimas and Enceladus, which are right between Tethys and the rings, so I cloned them onto this image, too. I had some exposures that revealed their positions, so tried to place the cloned images in the proper places. So, there are actually seven moons in this image. This is the result of all that post-processing...

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Feb 19, 2019 10:02 |  #2

Very cool


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Feb 25, 2019 05:09 |  #3

Awesome!


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