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Saturn June 16th

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10 years 5 months ago #101184 by jmckeon
Saturn June 16th was created by jmckeon
Got this shot of Saturn around midnight on June 15th/16th.
Equipment used: C8 SCT with an astro engineering 2x barlow and ASI120mm camera.



The filters used were astronomik lrgb and Ir-pass
This is an RRGB image, using the red channel data as luminance. I also added some IR-pass data at about 20% opacity to the image, IR-pass seems to highlight the polar region cloud bands well.
Seeing was particularly good this night, considering Saturn really doesn't get that high up.

The moons are Tethys, Dione and Rhea.

Full link here:
www.astrobin.com/102711/B/

Clear Skies.
The following user(s) said Thank You: michael_murphy, Kinch, mykc, Al costello

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10 years 5 months ago #101187 by paddyman
Replied by paddyman on topic Saturn June 16th
That is a great shot! - thanks for sharing.

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10 years 5 months ago #101189 by Keith g
Replied by Keith g on topic Saturn June 16th
Wow that's one beautiful shot of Saturn! I appreciate the effort you put in there J

Keith..

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10 years 5 months ago #101190 by flt158
Replied by flt158 on topic Saturn June 16th
Great image as always, John.

I was observing Saturn at precisely the same time. And I did see Rhea, Tethys and Dione. Titan was up in the northwest also.

I see you got the Cassini and the Encke divisions and the C -ring -Brilliant!

Plus Saturn's shadow on the back of the rings.

Aubrey.

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10 years 5 months ago #101201 by Fermidox
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Another masterpiece

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10 years 5 months ago #101202 by Kinch
Replied by Kinch on topic Saturn June 16th
Great image.

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