Designation |
Saturn |
Object type |
Outer planet |
Description |
My first attempt at planetary
work to get a feel for image scale, exposure times, etc. This
time the GIOTTO freeware program was used to perform automatic selection,
alignment and average combining of the FITS files. Unsharp mask in
Photoshop. |
Exposure |
L 0.1 s @ -10°C, best 24 of 200 exposures |
Camera |
SBIG ST-10XE + SBIG CFW-8 +
Astronomik IR-reject clear filter |
Optics |
Astro-Physics AP155EDFS +
projection by Baader
FFC to approx. f/44 |
Mount |
Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
Software |
MaxIm DL/CCD, GIOTTO, Adobe
Photoshop 6.0 |
Location - Date - Time |
San Esteban (Chile) - 26Jan2003 -
02:40 UTC |
Conditions |
Transparency 6, Seeing 4, Temperature
+20°C |