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Occultations
Occultations
These shots are composites of images taken during the November 30, 2001 occultation of Saturn by the Moon from dark skies at Copper Breaks State Park in North Texas. I used stacked video frames obtained from a PC-155C color video security camera coupled with a 2x apocromatic barlow through a Meade ETX-90 for the detail exposures of the Moon (Saturn way underexposed). The Saturn exposures were taken with a Sony Mavica digital camera, eyepiece projection through a  19mm Televue Panoptic through a Meade LX-90, using the cameras 4x zoom (Moon way over exposed). The independant exposures were stacked with AstroArt, and then combined and processed with Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Single frame from the video camera. About 30 of the best frames were stacked for the moon portion of the composite.

 

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