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Saturn at opposition

Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the sky with its dazzling rings. Saturn is a gas giant planet composed of hydrogen & Helium gases with a rocky core. The Saturnian day is 10 hours only due to rapid rotation of the planet. Its distance from the Sun is around 1.4 billion Km. In opposition when Earth, Saturn & Sun become in one line. Saturn appears larger due to close approach. In this image Saturn, apparent size is 19 Arc-second. Gear setup: Celestron Mak 127/1500, Televue 2.5x, UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 294 MC, iOptron iEQ 30 pro. Captured by Sharp pro. Stacked by Autostakkart!, wavelets by Registax, processed by PS and Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI.

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Uploaded on August 7, 2021