I couldn’t believe my eyes as the skies cleared for this!! I remember that it was quite cloudy during the day and I thought, ah well, at least I don’t have to wait till 3am to see it. But as midnight came, the skies cleared and out came the gear, as this doesn't happen every day!!! . It was great watching the moon slowly creep towards Saturn. I was in a bit of a dilemma of what camera to use, the Canon 350D (which isn’t normally used for planetary/lunar imaging) or the Atik 2c (which is normally used for this kind of stuff). In the end I used both I just kept swapping every now and then. A few minutes after this was taken, half of Saturn was covered by the moon, just its rings poking out!! At the time, I was using the canon and the images are a little blurry, so I’ve gone with this one.

After I’d taken the pictures, I had a proper look with a 10mm eyepiece and the view was stunning

Image details:

As it was impossible to correctly expose for both Saturn and the moon, I took 2 AVI’s. One to expose for Saturn, the other one for the moon. Then both merged in Photoshop.

Telescope: Celestron C9
Camera: Atik 2c
K3ccd tools used to capture 2 AVI’s
Registax 3 used to process both AVI’s of apporox 1000 frames each
Photoshop used to merge the 2 images together, then erase through the over-exposed moon.