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[der-gorgonaut]

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by Georg Nickolaus

[deepskyhunters]

Saturn's dance with Titan

At last the sky is clear (no clouds, no dust) and i have time - a new image of the Saturn will be shoot tonight.

I placed the telescope outside to cool down and while waiting for the scope to cool down and for Saturn to rise I prepared all the other equipment (and maybe drank a beer or two and watched a episode of Sabrina).

Once everything was set up and Saturn was high enough, it was time to start shooting it.

The equipment we used was the Orion Maksutov 127/1540 on the Starseeker IV AltAz mount and the Omegon VeLOX 178C camera together with a 2X Barlow.

The image you see is the result of the best 25% out of 2648 frames stacked. Stacking and editing was done in Registax 6.

We hope you enjoy the photo.

Clear skies!

[mindhuestudio]

Thought I'd post something lunar in case people were wondering what happened LOL. The annoying thing is, over the past month or so there have been very few times where is hasn't been cloudy/mostly cloudy in the evening, and any other time I haven't had the opportunity, equipment or free hand to do any observing except with the naked eye. That same holds for planetary observation -- I was able to see Saturn a while back, but not since then. With both Jupiter and Saturn at or near opposition I feel like I'm missing prime viewing time, but so it goes. I'll go ahead and admit, it's also been hot and the ecliptic is pretty low on the south right now, so that makes it less likely I'll attempt going out on evenings when it's somewhat clear and I could possibly see something through the murk. 😉 #iphoneastrophotography #lunarphotography #planetaryphotography #themoon #simulatedimage #toocloudy #toohot #toolow https://www.instagram.com/p/CS4M7grrqsI/?utm_medium=tumblr

[reflexletterpress]

Woo-hoo, a planet! 🎉 The last time I really got to view Saturn was during the Great Conjunction with Jupiter way back around New Years, and it was waaaay on the other side of the Solar System. You could kinda sorta see that it was a bit oblong, but rings? ...LOL maybe. Tonight Saturn is at opposition, so it's the closest -- and visibly biggest -- it'll be all year. Tonight is also the first time in a long while there haven't been annoying clouds gathering around sunset, which was nice. That's one of the reasons I haven't posted much astronomical content lately. Summer observing at my place is also not very convenient, as the ecliptic is waaaay to the south at night, there are a bunch of houses blocking my southern view, and the City of Boston presents a big bright glowing blob of light pollution covering most of the southern horizon -- which is why I'm specializing in planetary and lunar observing, incidentally. While I had to wait for the planet to slide into the gap between the two houses behind me, it was definitely much bigger and I believe -- maybe real, maybe placebo effect, maybe wishful thinking -- that I could actually discern a separation between the rings and the planet. Yes! [fist pump] Of course, for all you out there in Instaland, you get to look at some squiggly aberrated pixels in a vague oval shape rendered by an iPhone camera app that would probably like to go on strike at this point, so you'll have to take my word for it. Of course, I'd love to try to identify moons and such, but Saturn's moons aren't big, bright and colinear like Jupiter's, so that will have to wait for a telescope with a bit more aperture and resolving power. Maybe I can see Titan one of these evenings, but I wouldn't hold my breath. #iphoneastrophotography #saturn #oblong #planetaryphotography #kludge #takemywordforit https://www.instagram.com/p/CSGJNpXrX-p/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mindhuestudio]

Woo-hoo, a planet! 🎉 The last time I really got to view Saturn was during the Great Conjunction with Jupiter way back around New Years, and it was waaaay on the other side of the Solar System. You could kinda sorta see that it was a bit oblong, but rings? ...LOL maybe. Tonight Saturn is at opposition, so it's the closest -- and visibly biggest -- it'll be all year. Tonight is also the first time in a long while there haven't been annoying clouds gathering around sunset, which was nice. That's one of the reasons I haven't posted much astronomical content lately. Summer observing at my place is also not very convenient, as the ecliptic is waaaay to the south at night, there are a bunch of houses blocking my southern view, and the City of Boston presents a big bright glowing blob of light pollution covering most of the southern horizon -- which is why I'm specializing in planetary and lunar observing, incidentally. While I had to wait for the planet to slide into the gap between the two houses behind me, it was definitely much bigger and I believe -- maybe real, maybe placebo effect, maybe wishful thinking -- that I could actually discern a separation between the rings and the planet. Yes! [fist pump] Of course, for all you out there in Instaland, you get to look at some squiggly aberrated pixels in a vague oval shape rendered by an iPhone camera app that would probably like to go on strike at this point, so you'll have to take my word for it. Of course, I'd love to try to identify moons and such, but Saturn's moons aren't big, bright and colinear like Jupiter's, so that will have to wait for a telescope with a bit more aperture and resolving power. Maybe I can see Titan one of these evenings, but I wouldn't hold my breath. #iphoneastrophotography #saturn #oblong #planetaryphotography #kludge #takemywordforit https://www.instagram.com/p/CSGJDmnsIKB/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jzholloway-sncastro]

Saturn - 9-11-2020 Got one decent RGB stack - realized I had too much disparity between my colors ISO wise in some earlier shots that really messed up the color (and I dont know enough to fix it :) ) . Probably won't have much more with Saturn or Jupiter unless my filter wheel or zwo camera comes in before they are way too low (around 25 deg. currently at transit) . 10" Dobsonian, Nikon Z6, Powermate 5 . . . #astronomy #astrophotography #saturn #rings #planetaryphotography #planet #nature #naturelover #nightsky #highpointscientific #cityastronomy #nikonphotography #nikonz6 #telescope #televue #rhodeisland #providenceri (at Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFHdEMKJ-y5/?igshid=2tzlgwv1m702

[davidwfloydart]

This is #Jupiter 🌎 #planetaryscience #planetarymagic #planetaryphotography #coolaf #planetside #jupiterplanet #planet (at Lower Haight, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzZ2SGlgvA2sn3hf-rSuQpMqSBQkgql7eVyY3A0/?igshid=1fcstjwa15nb