From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: October 27, 2006 4:57:05 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Uranus and 3 moons

Milton:

Nice job!  I tried to capture Uranus and it's moons in poor seeing

while fighting dew on the corrector with my C-8 a few weeks ago, but

couldn't convince myself they're in there...

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Milton Aupperle" <milton@...> wrote:

Hi folks;

I bought a C8 OTA earlier this month and finally have had some clearer

skies to try it out. Since all the bright planets are gone, I tried

shooting Uranus on October 22.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/UranusWMoons_20061022_MJA.jpg

I imaged Uranus at 7.5 frames per second and then the moons were shot

in 2x2 binned color mode with 10 second exposures. I stacked the

Uranus shots using Astro IIDC's 4x scale and stack method and then

scaled them into proper size and location in the composite. Two other

Moons were lost in the glare of Uranus.

Turbulence was pretty bad and even shooting at 2,000 mm focal length

was pushing.

TTYl..

Milton aupperle