Planetary Imaging
Clavius, Tycho, lunar highlands
Saturn
November 24-25, 2002.
Astro-Physics 5-inch F6 Refractor
Philips VestaPro Webcam in 640x480 Mode
Camera adapter by Steve Mogg
TeleVue 2x barlow, FeatherTouch focusser
Captured on a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop
Processed on a Dell Dimension using Registax freeware
Moon: 1/100 second, +/-200 frames stacked
Saturn: 1/25 second, +/-80 frames stacked
Image scale: approximately 0.5 arcsec / pixel.
These images are reconstructed from twenty- and
forty-second AVI videos captured at five frames per second.
Individual video frames were aligned to defeat atmospheric
blurring and stacked to improve their signal-to-noise ratio.