Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturn. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Sky Objects, Mostly Moon Shots


The pix in my YouTube collection are from having used mostly two point-and-shoot cameras. Incidentally, smart-phone cameras also have capabilities for taking similar sky pix.

For people who haven't considered photographing sky objects, look, up in the sky. It could be Supermoon! Build your own pic collection for day or night moons! Also, pick other sky objects that catch your fancy. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

GIMP-adding Newest Saturn to 3-Saturn .xcf File

My previous topic, "2-Saturn Composite, Anticipating Future Edge-on Rings" ... includes basic Saturn info and resources. The video "2-Saturn Composite Image, GIMP Revisit" ...

This time around, the topic is about having found a GIMP-editable (.xcf) 3-Saturn composite with images from 2015 and 2018 as well as 2021, then adding the image from November. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

2-Saturn Composite, Anticipating Future Edge-on Rings

We recently pic'd Saturn, then recalled another imaging session (from about 26 months before. I wanted to compare images, then create a composite. The 2-Saturn composite image shows Saturn on 9/2/2021 and 11/22/2023. The orientations differ, and the newer Saturn's set of rings angle narrower than the rings of the earlier Saturn. Read the entire article and comment there, please.