Occultation of Saturn

[patman0250]

wow!!!



[Kapseros]

The video is authentic 1000%. Congrats to you my astromate! Clear skies!!

[loulovesmm]

cool video, but why is there a video if how to make the perfect apple pie in the side of related videos ?

[assasin74rus]

Wow, this is... Winderful)) Ну или как там, красиво короче

[niva4v4]

wow wery good

[skylinevspec000]

Thank you for this video, I quite enjoyed it

[yuriogy1]

man that's so cool! what a privilege to see that!

[radiantracoon]

@rockSldBrute same i was just thinking that

[daconmiked]

does anyone know if there are telescopes we can buy that can see neptune or no matter which one you use it will be too far away ? peace .

[NCAstronut]

Hell of a good job man.

[giofrasa]

very good!

[mccarvill1]

Quality great capture

[DanRaccoon]

Epic.

[ParaglidingManiac]

Universe (including Earth) is amazing.

[Malkus1]

@ParaglidingManiac including moon

[vwlover94]

thats a good freaken video bro!! nice shot.

[truemartian1]

Very nice viseo

[Fenfir51]

next to saturn is the moon right

[CacherDavid]

Awesome video. I have an 8 inch B&L refelector and I want to be able to get some shots like this.

[datkid2293]

wheres all the stars....i like stars... :(

[OhFookinELL]

Great video man!

[Devestato72]

so dope

[DrMichi127]

Respect dude nice vid

[jamestampere]

my god that is amazing. i love saturn. i wish i could live on dione and see saturn up close everyday...

[serg666rus]

thx, professional video!

[peliciarie]

AMAZING!

[jamieball]

Beautiful.. Can't wait to see an occultation like this!

[PraetorianL33T]

Woah i ddn no dat th mon was so big comperd to satrn

[cantescape1987]

Actually Saturn is way bigger then the Moon.

[PraetorianL33T]

I understand that it was just a joke. =P

[scolton4life]

whitch cardinal direction is saturn in during the summer night?

[Duskrunner291]

lol the moon is the death star and its preparing to blow up lil saturn =P nice video m8!

[m80cluster]

o.O wheeeee

[africa2in]

Awesome video!!

The best I've seen. We'll try to capture Antares on

reappearing after the occultation by the Moon.

It will be visible from Athens on the 10th May.

Anyway we see.

Congrats for this :-)

[sandiegoreal]

That is really cool. I'm watching this with my four year old little boy. We've seen Saturn through my small telescope. But this is awesome.  He knew Saturn was coming behind the moon. He's starting to figure it out.

[21Milosz21]

Thats..thats...o man i cant find words! :D

[slut421]

oh damn i can't stop laughing.

[dallas1963]

absolutely fantastic!...i had my 6" Celestron Newtonian out tonight....saw a nice, crisp view of Saturn and a crescent moon

[RJL738]

You did a great job filming this, God bless you.

I'm glad Jesus Christ is my LORD and PERSONAL SAVIOR. He is the creator and sustainer of Everything.

Saturn is actually almost 900 times the Earth's volume, however it looks small compared to the moon that is allitle over 1/4th the Earth's diameter.

[greedylawyer]

This is a good vid, very impressive!!

BTW: Save the BIBLE-THUMPING for Sunday, will you, PAL?

.......oh, and SATAN BLESS U!!

[fotograh]

Fantastik!

[jimmygman01]

now THAT is Occultation baby!

the combination of a good telescope and filming it passing another unfocused object in the front give it so much more depth perception.

the long job of processing the light balances payed off alott buddy! Nice

[emilydanielle17]

Nice video. Did you continue watching it after filming this? What happens to saturn after the passing? Does it get further off into the distance; vanish; get lower?

[EscApiNgTheVoiD]

good catch my friend

[1234qwerty09]

can i see it as good as that? :)

please reply

[jamieball]

nice capture!! I want a bigger telescope!!

[sedativechunk]

Dude, that looks awesome. Kind of spooky seeing it emerge from behind the moon.

[1234qwerty09]

can you see saturns rings at 155x

[Lity10]

Yes you can.

[starwar324]

actually you cans see them with even less magnification

[fcofelixx]

simply amazing.

[rpdwpb]

Pretty decent video considering its taken with a webcam and has a bright-ass white globe in the frames.

[bamahama36]

hehehe peek a boo I see you!

[Pingletons]

Oh yeah, they're something like 40,000 USD correct? Well anyway, you can spend as much as you like, it's one of those things where the price could be billions if you wanted to send a telescope into space or something like that.

[H4I2I2EE]

I think this is bad ass. What does the photoshop part of the description mean? Does it mean I wouldn't see it like this ordinarily?

[Pingletons]

Your eye could probably see it better actually, as it would be much sharper, and your eye is better at discerning different intensities that a camera when the objects are visually next to each other.

[michaelmorris4]

In the original video, Saturn was very dark and the Moon VERY bright. using VirtualDub I saved the video as a sequence of BMP images (1 per frame).  I then used the curves, levels and unsharpen mask functions in Photoshop to bring out Saturn and tone down the Moon. I saved these settings as an Action then applied the Action to all the images (frames) for the video. Finally I used VirtualDub to turn it back into a video.

[michaelmorris4]

@H4I2I2EE

See my reply to a very eraly comment that explains what the photoshop part of the processing was. In fact, because the human eye can differentiate a much wider range of image brightness than a simple webcam, it actually looks even better with the naked eye.

[FPVsean]

jesus is that real?? that is one extremely cool sight to be seeing, thats is (excuse the language) f*cking deadly!

[calosity]

Awesome. Truly the greatest display depth perception ever. The amount of space in between the telescope and the rings of Saturn is massive, yet there they are with the moon as a reference point. Very awesome.

[usamarine20]

im buying one , whats the price is it the most powerfull commercial telescope

[Pingletons]

The telescope he is using is around 2000 USD, but you can buy commercial ones over 16,000.

[rpdwpb]

Commercial scopes are generally built or one of a kinds. If you have to ask you wont be getting one. A $1000 scope is great and will do 50% that of a $16,000 scope and a 25% of a $40,000 scope. The scope in the video is about a $1000 and he is probably using a modified $30 webcam. You can have a 20" tele and your neighbor with a 4" refractor will get more use and value if he knows how to use it.

[haobin420]

what's the meaning?

[doctorgaiusbaltar]

Excellent video. Awesome!

[jvercetti17]

i hope i can have a telescope that i can see this beautiful planet too...

[litstp01]

the best video of saturn on youtube ive seen yet. Great work!

[y08y]

Nice, although the quality is very disappointing for such an expensive 8" Meade LX200

[supra3point0]

Thats just fantastic

[RJL738]

Saturn's rings are more than 22 kilometers thick and more than 133,000 kilometers wide. It is almost 450 times bigger than the Earth by volume. Good work on the video.

[Chrisjr2007]

great

[mrdancingking]

i had goosebumps watching this, the feeling u must have had looking thru the telescope must have been incredible. DEFINATELY getting a telescope now (:

[AleXXMADD]

wow AWSOME :P great video pelase upload more :=)

[livingsmall]

now that was dope.

[thepostfk]

This scares me for some reason

[ladykaro1]

niesamowite wrażenia..

[klswn22]

very nice

[RexNunc]

mmmmmmmmm

[wifly81]

fantastic

[sweetbilly]

That is so cool, how often do you get to see something like that? Hard to believe that planet is mostly gasses, it's so beautiful!

[ASTROSCAN3002001]

5*****STARS...VERY GOOD!!!

[peteq1972]

cool! i saw this back in 2000? 2001? i think, sometime back then anyway.

nice video.

[taha65466]

You think I could achieve similar results if I used 200X or 250X magnification then an added 2.4-4.9 optical zoom (digital camera)? I have a 4.5" so I obviously won't have as much detail, but do you thnk the size will be similar?

[gbarkl3y]

best video ever

[bstep13]

you can see everything on Saturn with that Telescope i have an 8 Inch Meade LX200R also with Ritchey Cretien optics i can't wait to see it through that telescope!!!

[DuMyth]

Thats one biiiiiiiiiiig planet...

[cow104]

OMG. Unbelievable.

[krushade100123]

WOO WOW WOW,wats dis! and i kno das saturan but is dat da moon in front

[Maxsapd]

DUH, ofcourse!

[flight0001]

I could watch this all day.

[n4tti1c3]

Great video! bravo!

[VTTR182]

Well it seems like the two are moving opposite directions so it's sure that it's in real time.

[CRZephyr]

Wow that's pretty fast for real time recording!

[mynameiscaleb]

how lonjg did this take to record?

[michaelmorris4]

This is a real time recording, not time lapse.

[radioman970]

Stunning! Where's the starship Enterprise emerging on the other side!!

[jknox71]

my telescope can zoom into the moon more than that but I never knew you could see saturn like this. what magnification it that

[michaelmorris4]

It's not strictly possible to translate images to visual magnifications, but here goes anyway.

The area covered by the image is 4.7 arcminutes by 6.3 arc minutes, which would be equivalent to a magnification x 550 times (equivalent to using a 4mm eyepiece with my 8" LX200 F10 scope)

[jknox71]

cool Im going to look for it right now with my lx90

[sl9guitar]

beautiful...

[rialbb]

awesome.

[VademecumExInferis]

GREAT!!! I WANNA A TELESCOPE NOW!!!

[johnschaser]

very nice

[cortexedge]

omg...i wish i had a better telescope :((

[jarochomty]

me tooooo! :( so bad

[ballerpnoy20]

damn thats so cool

[rlwalker2]

High marks.  Cool pictures.

[xxXxGrimReaperxXxx]

FUCKIN' AWESOME

[perceptualvortex]

Supercool.