John Chumack _Observatories
Saturn on 07-05-2016
The Planet Saturn on 07-05-2016 captured from my backyard Observatory in Dayton, Ohio. Seeing was coming and going, the Red channel was the cleanest, but it was pretty rough seeing in the Blue & Green end of the spectrum. I was surprised that it came out okay..with fewer frames used, so many bad frames thrown out due to rough seeing. Celestron 8inch diameter Telescope(SCT 2000mm) & QHY5IIL Camera, Celestron 3x Barlow (F30 ), 2100 frames Stacked in Registax6.
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive planetary ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, that orbit about Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component of rocky material. There is still no consensus as to their mechanism of formation; some features of the rings suggest a relatively recent origin, but theoretical models indicate they are likely to have formed early in the Solar System's history.
Although reflection from the rings increases Saturn's brightness, they are not visible from Earth with unaided vision. In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope to the sky, he became the very first person to observe Saturn's rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature. In 1655, Christian Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
Saturn on 07-05-2016
The Planet Saturn on 07-05-2016 captured from my backyard Observatory in Dayton, Ohio. Seeing was coming and going, the Red channel was the cleanest, but it was pretty rough seeing in the Blue & Green end of the spectrum. I was surprised that it came out okay..with fewer frames used, so many bad frames thrown out due to rough seeing. Celestron 8inch diameter Telescope(SCT 2000mm) & QHY5IIL Camera, Celestron 3x Barlow (F30 ), 2100 frames Stacked in Registax6.
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive planetary ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, that orbit about Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice, with a trace component of rocky material. There is still no consensus as to their mechanism of formation; some features of the rings suggest a relatively recent origin, but theoretical models indicate they are likely to have formed early in the Solar System's history.
Although reflection from the rings increases Saturn's brightness, they are not visible from Earth with unaided vision. In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope to the sky, he became the very first person to observe Saturn's rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature. In 1655, Christian Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn.
Best Regards,
John Chumack