Saturn 17th July with a Mak

[chiltonstar]

Saturn at midnight last night with a 180 Mak, AS1224, ADC, image processed in Pipp, AS and PS. Best 3000 frames from 15000. Saturn was 12 degrees above the horizon.

Chris

Edited July 18, 2021 by chiltonstar

[JAC51]

Good picture for how low Saturn is to the horizon. I had to wait until 1am before Saturn cleared the neighbors house. Visually with a 5” frac I saw a bleached out version of your image. I could just make out the “wider” parts of Cassini division as in the left and right side of your image. On the disk itself I could make out clearly the darker band below the rings in your image, just make out the fainter thin band below that and just a hint of darker shading around the pole.

Thank you for posting the image.

John

[rl]

Result! Superb shot.

[Pete Presland]

lovely looking capture