Saturn - Rhea transit
Friday, February 13th 2009 - 23:07 (UTC) - focal ratio f/23
Here is an animation of Rhea passing in front of Saturn. Rhea is visible in the first few frames just on the left edge of the planet. A storm is also visible just above the rings, rotating about as fast as Rhea's shadow.
The animation consists of 17 pictures, each a stack of about 1000 frames. The luminance data was taken using the 840k webcam (see equipment) combined with several different filters (I was experimenting a bit). The colour information was taken with the SPC900NC webcam.
Images were stacked in Registax, and further processed in Photoshop.
equipment used
Philips SPC900NC webcam - SC1
Philips Toucam Pro II (840k) webcam - SC1.5 with b/w ICX098BL-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10
Philips SPC900NC webcam - SC1
Philips Toucam Pro II (840k) webcam - SC1.5 with b/w ICX098BL-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10