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Well, it's Slider Sunday and I've not been allowed out to take photo's of anything, So .....
Base image is of the Reynisdrangar Trolls taken in Iceland on our last visit, the 'sky' is courtesy of NASA.
I'm wishing Perseverance (Mars explorer) the best of luck, may it outlive Spirit and Opportunity (previous explorers) that both lasted well beyond their sell by date.
As an engineer I'm in complete awe of the design of these remote exploration robots and I'm not a "rah rah" sort of person but Go NASA!
Saturn at Opposition
August 13-14, 2022
After a night of astronomy at the Von Braun Astronomical Society planetarium, I was inspired to drag my Celestron Edge HD8 telescope out for a look at Saturn. I caught it about 12 hours before the time it was nearest Earth for this year. Seeing was decent, so I got my camera set up and this happened. Not a best ever image (I hope!), but still OK for an imager as rusty as me
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8
Mount: Celestron AVX equatorial mount
Camera: ZWO ASI 224 MC
Magnification: Explore Scientific 3x Focal Extender
Other equipment: ZWO UV-IR blocking filter
Best 15% of 7152 video frames, preprocessed with PIPP, stacked in Autostakkert!3, and buffed in Photoshop PSCC2022
Supermond über dem Bayrischen Oberland...nach erfolgreich abgewehrter "Attacke" der Kälber, die es auf meinen Nachbarn und mich abgesehen hatten...Ralf's Vermutung, dass es nicht der Mond sei, sondern der Saturn, ist nicht so abwegig bei diesen Mond-Wolken-Ringen :-))...oder doch Jupiter?? :-))))
Saturn on May 31st 2022.Couldn't quiet get the colors to come out like I wanted them too. Saturn still fairly low in the sky for me and this should improve.
Celestron C9.25" f/20
AZ-EQ5
ZWO ASI224MC with IR cut filter
Saturn
Gain = 400
Exposure = 7
Gamma off
WinJUPOS 6X120"
Jupiter
Gain = 335
Exposure = 4
Gamma off
WinJUPOS 8X120"
Cairns
Shot with a Nikon 200mm f/4 AF-D macro lens @ f/11. No drip or trigger mechanism was used. I set up a light stand with a boom that has a small hole at the end, and I sent the drops through the hole to get a consistent drop placement. My shutter release cable was wishy-washy and wouldn't give me a consistent shutter time, so I had to push the shutter button on the camera with my other hand.
Key lighting used a Godox AD360 to the left and a little in front of the drops. I had a Godox AD600 behind as the backdrop using a purple gel filter and a Glow EZ Lock Arc softbox.
August 22, 2021
OTA: Celestron Edge 11
Mount: Celestron CGX-L
Camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Captured with ASI Studio
Processed with Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6.1
Although I missed the Saturn conjunction I was still thrilled to capture this image from my back yard. It took 3 nights but I am very rusty with planetary imaging. So HAPPY to be imaging again! Hope you enjoy the beautiful planet of Saturn.
Processed using calibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on October 13 2004. Moons, clockwise from bottom right, are Tethys, Rhea, and Enceladus.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Saturn imaged from London on the 16th September 2018
Celestron Edge HD11 scope & ASI174MM camera. LRGB image, luminance through 685nm IR pass filter
The first milky way after the lockdown in Italy, in southern Sardinia with Saturn and Jupiter, and the airglow in a night with the clear May sky.
Stacked: best 10% of 1000 video frames.
Telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 120
Camera: ZWO ASI 290
Date: 2021-06-17
Average seeing with Saturn only about 30 degrees above the horizon, about 11:00 pm local. Mewlon 210 with QHY camera. RegiStax for processing.
My very first shot of Saturn, taken on September 23rd 2018. I used a Celestron CPC 1100 telescope, with eyepiece projection method on an Olympus OMD E-M5. Captured 1 minute of video, and post-processed with Autostakkert 3. Result is above expectations, considering I could barely see a thing in the screen of my camera. Cassini division is clearly visible.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away.
Saturn hosts many recognisable features, most notably its trademark ring system, which is now tilted towards Earth. This gives us a magnificent view of its bright icy structure. Hubble resolves numerous ringlets and the fainter inner rings. Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens first identified the rings in 1655 and thought they were a continuous disk encircling the planet, but we now know them to be composed of orbiting particles of ice and dust. Though all of the gas giants boast rings, Saturn’s are the largest and most spectacular.
The age of Saturn’s ring system continues to be debated. And, even more perplexingly, it’s unknown what cosmic event formed the rings. There is no consensus among planetary astronomers today.
Read more here.
Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley); CC BY 4.0
Spring doesn't just hapen on Earth. Spring also happens on some of our neighboring planets in the solar system.
Of the countless equinoxes Saturn has seen since the birth of the solar system, this one, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary from Earth … none other than our faithful robotic explorer, Cassini in this image from 2009.
Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini had no such problems. From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator.
At equinox, the shadows of the planet's expansive rings are compressed into a single, narrow band cast onto the planet as seen in this mosaic. At this time so close to equinox, illumination of the rings by sunlight reflected off the planet vastly dominates any meager sunlight falling on the rings. Hence, the half of the rings on the left illuminated by planetshine is, before processing, much brighter than the half of the rings on the right. On the right, it is only the vertically extended parts of the rings that catch any substantial sunlight.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Original image taken from the same NASA planetary size comparison chart as Jupiter: solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Plan...
This looks like a flipped version of the "Saturn's rings" photo (Photo ID: P-23883C/BW) from the NASA NSSDC Photo Gallery: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html
It was taken by Voyager 2 on July 21, 1981.
Available for model years 2007-2010.
It was a 2-seat sports car similar to the Pontiac Solstice, Opel GT and Daewoo G2X.
RGB natural color. Added blooming/white overlay at top right corner to cover over-exposure defects.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
The Grand Finale
On Sept. 15, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with an intentional plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its mission after nearly 20 years in space.
JLH en la 34ª ceremonia de los Saturn Awards, donde obtuvo el premio a la mejor actriz de televisión.
We had rain and clouds until just about half way through totallity. Fortunately the clouds parted and the wind stopped.
The Saturn Sky is a convertible sports car that was produced by Saturn, and was initially released in the first quarter of 2006 as a 2007 model. It uses the Kappa automobile platform shared with the Pontiac Solstice. The Sky concept was shown at the 2005 North American International Auto Show, with the production version following at the 2006 show. It was built at GM's Wilmington Assembly plant in Wilmington, Delaware, alongside the Solstice. The Sky featured 18-inch wheels and a 2.4 L (146 cu in) Ecotec LE5 inline-four engine with direct injection and variable valve timing that produced 177 hp (132 kW), a new 2.0-litre turbocharged direct injected inline-four engine also featuring VVT that made 260 hp (194 kW) and 260 lb⋅ft (353 N⋅m). An optional dealer-installed MAP sensor and ECM flash upgrade kit was also available for the Red Line model from 2008 onwards. Both five-speed manual and automatic transmissions were available.
The styling for the Sky, penned by Franz von Holzhausen, was based on the Opel Speedster's design. It was available in some European markets as the Opel GT. A rebadged version named the Daewoo G2X was unveiled as a concept vehicle for the South Korean market in 2006, then released for sale in September 2007. The price of the G2X was nearly double the price of the Sky and Solstice as sold in the United States, likely due to tariffs and cost of shipping from the Wilmington plant.
The Wilmington Assembly plant closed in July 2009, ending production as both the Pontiac and Saturn nameplates were retired.
South Slope, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada