Saturn

Below is an image taken on 04/03/05 of Saturn and its three moons Rhea, Dione, and Tethys. The image was taken with a Phillips ToUcam Pro 840K and a Teleview 2.5X Powermate Barlow through the 8 inch LX200 Classic at f25. The image is an intergration of 900 frames of video. During the post processing, I noticed the 3 moons were just barely visible in the image. So, I selected each moon in Photoshop and pumped the level up only on the moons to make them visible. The result is quite nice.

Below is an image of Saturn taken on 02/25/04 with a new Phillips ToUcam Pro 840K. The image was taken with my 8 inch LX200 and a Teleview 2.5X Powermate Barlow. This is an integration of 820 frames of video shot at 15 frames per second. It's my best Saturn image to date.

Below is an image of Saturn taken on 02/17/04 with a new Phillips ToUcam Pro 840K. The image was taken with my 8 inch LX200 and a Teleview 2.5X Powermate Barlow. This is an integration of 1532 frames of video shot at 15 frames per second.

Here are a couple of pictures of Saturn taken with my 8" LX200 and my Sony TRV510 Digital 8mm Camcorder.

03-10-03 Saturn (600 frames of video stacked and averaged)

03-10-03 Saturn (105 frames of video stacked and averaged)

02/20/03 - Saturn (Sony TRV-510 Digital 8mm Camcorder hand held at eyepiece)