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This beautiful image of Saturn was taken by @space_time_with_robert around 12:30 A.M at Dry Falls Visitor Center, WA, 6-19-2020.
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The two dots you see to the lower left of Saturn are its moons, Titan and Rhea (need to zoom in for Rhea).
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He used two telescopes simultaneously! One telescope was an ETX 80 with a Canon Rebel SL2 attached to the rear-imaging port.
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The second telescope was an 8" ACF with a ZWO ASI 120 MC planetary imaging camera attached to its eyepiece port.
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Both telescopes were mounted to a Meade LX65 Motorized Mount, keeping Saturn in view.
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After stacking the video captured by the 8" ACF, he took the higher-resolution image generated of Saturn and layered it on top of the wide-angle photo captured by the ETX80.
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To counter the strong purple halos produced by the ETX 80's achromatic lens, he also colored the entire image blue and negated all purple/pinks from the wide-angle.
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The programs he used for this image were: GIMP 2.8 (for layering), Digital Photo Professional 4 (for color processing), ASICAP (for video capture), and Photoshop Express (for Noise Reduction-20, Radial Blur-20, and Dehaze-20).
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I hope everyone is getting some good views of the Gas Giants this summer :) Stay safe all!
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@astro.space0 hey thank you so much!! 🙏 if anyone has any questions about this photo hmu and I’ll do my best to explain everything! Clear skies!! ❤️❤️
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