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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2007

Video of Saturn emerging after passing behind the Moon (aka occultation) on the evening of 22nd May 2007. Captured with Toucam Pro II webcam through 8" Meade LX200 telescope with 2 x barlow. Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and VirtualDub

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  • 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?

  • 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.

  • @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.

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  • Universe (including Earth) is amazing.

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

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  • wow!!!

    

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

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

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

  • wow wery good

  • Thank you for this video, I quite enjoyed it

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

  • @rockSldBrute same i was just thinking that

  • 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 .

  • Hell of a good job man. 

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