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Saturn (reduced and cropped)

Saturn through the 82-inch telescope. Best half of 51 frames from the Pentax istDS. One alignment point in Registax 4, final image reduced 75 percent using Lanczos method. Slight gamma correction applied in Registax and median blur applied in LView Pro. Final image cropped from 2256x1500 pixels to this size (1074x756).

 

Exposure: Each frame 1/20th second, F 13.7 ISO 800

Focal length: 28,530mm (that's 96.6 feet!)

 

Filename: sat-best-1pt-75pc-crop

 

Thanks, folks! This photo is the fastest of mine ever to reach 200+ views, near as I can tell!

 

UPDATE: Newer version is here: static.flickr.com/115/307036649_8356642ad9.jpg

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Uploaded on November 20, 2006
Taken on November 20, 2006