Last Saturn this year

[astroman001]

This may be my last image of Saturn this opposition. It's getting very low now even at dusk.

Best regards

Peter

[neil phillips]

Quite amazing to be honest Peter, This almost looks better than your earlier ones. Its so far west for me its hidden behind my house roof, I gave up ages ago. I can only imagine what you would be getting with high elevation. superb

 

[Grotemobile]

Saturn really looked good, with the binos , the other night.

Very good picture Peter.

 

 

[beka]

Nice image astroman001. You can see what looks to be the C ring and also the Encke gap. The "Encke gap" has a similar discontinuous appearance on each side of the planet so I was thinking is this the actual gap or a processing artifact. Similarly with the C ring - it looks very distinct. I had problems along this line when I tried processing images of Jupiter a few years back and found it difficult to determine if some of the features that popped up after processing were indeed real features. 

[astroman001]

Thanks all, I don't claim an Encke division, the seeing was too bad. I think it's a processing artifact? There is definitely a C ring however.

Best regards

Peter

[si@nite]

That's a great shot Peter at this late stage, well done!

[laudropb]

That's a terrific image, especially for such a low altitude target. 

[Stephen Green]

That is a very nice image and detail

[Atlas]

Wonderful shot!

[Pete Presland]

A superb image to end on, it's been over for me for weeks as well!