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Guten Morgen zusammen. Dieses Mal hab ich leider keine Sternschnuppe. Dafür hab ich aber Jupiter und Saturn (unten Links) im Formationsflug erwischt :-)
Foto und Bea: www.waahnsinnsgestaltungen.com
A nice Saturn in the early hours, still low but a little higher in UK skies and the colours came through a little better because of that.
Peter
As Saturn climbs higher in the night sky, the clarity improves. With only a camera for imaging, it's amazing what can now be achieved. I'm off to New York state next week, where Saturn and Jupiter will be much higher in the sky...
This image was an unintentional oversight - it was only when checking my August images for a week when I'd spent several nights in a row imaging Jupiter and Saturn that I realised I had never processed this data, a series of ten short colour videos combined with three short IR 642 nm pass videos.
Peter
Saturn at opposition 2022 showing brightened rings due to the Seelinger effect. SW200P Newtonian and Altair H183Mpro. Best 10% of 5000x 10ms each RGB.
The presence of a bright gibbous moon near Saturn on the morning of August 22, 2024, deprived me of a couple of Saturn's moons but the night still provided me with an enjoyable view of the ring planet.
Image captured with a Mewlon 210 and QHY 5lll 290C video camera. Best 40% of 2000 frames stacked and processed with RegiStax.
Saturn imaged in LRGB at f33 through a C8 with DMK21au618 CCD for the luminance channel and Skyris618C CCD for the color data.
ZWO ASI290MM/EFW 8 x 1.25"
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)/2.5x PM
Losmandy G11
20 RGB runs (19ms, 422 gain, 2400 frames in 45s) in FireCapture
Preprocessed in PIPP
Best 40% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Seen on EarthSky.org
earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/great-jupiter-saturn-co...
📷 Canon EOS Rebel T5i ( 700D )
🔭AstroMaster 80AZS
ISO 800
ExpTime 0.6s
Picked up the 2X converter to try out on some moon captures in the future, some far to reach animals when traveling, and for the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn.
With a clear cold and windy night tried out the converter on my 300mm making it 600mm. The two planets now are on opposite ends of the full frame ... but within two weeks they should be a lot closer ... about 1/5th the moon diameter apparent as seen in the sky.
Tried some various shutter speeds and ISO combinations to see what worked well.
The capture here is a combination of two captures, one centered on Jupiter and the other on Saturn. Then I brought the two together in Photoshop. They should be a lot closer than this come 12/21/20. Hoping for some clear nights as they get closer.
Will practice some other settings and live view focusing as that time approaches to see if even crisper images of the planets can be taken with the 300/2X combination.
If you view large, you can see the rings on Saturn, and also you can see 4 of the larger moons around Jupiter.
Cairns
3-10-2021
Average seeing
C9.25" @ f/20
ZWO ASI224MC
Celestron X-Cel LX 2x barlow
IR cut filter
Saturn
FireCapture (Gain=400; Exposure=7; Gamma=off)
AS!3
RegiStax6
WinJUPOS 10 x 120"
PixInsight
Photoshop
Jupiter
FireCapture (Gain=350; Exposure=4; Gamma=off)
AS!3
RegiStax6
WinJUPOS 8 x 120"
PixInsight
Photoshop
I support Damian Peach on Patreon where he posts planetary and cometary astrophotography tutorials including some data posts.
www.patreon.com/peachastro/posts
This is data from one of Damian's Barbados sessions on a Celestron C14 + ADC using a ZWO ASI224MC camera.
The data was 13 x OSC TIF files which I have sharpened in RegiStax6, then centred each frame in PIPP. After that, I stacked all 13 frames in AutoStakkert!3 before finally using Photoshop for toning, vibrance, texture and unsharp mask.
Image credit: Damian Peach/John Purvis
It is quite a while since I have done any planetary imaging. However, a reasonable sky on the 19th September allowed me to get my first images of Saturn this season along with some moon images. I imaged the planet using both a Baader IR pass filter at 685nm and separate Baader RGB filters for colour. Each resultant image is the result of 2 filter runs which were combined and derotated using Winjupos. Some nice pastel coloured banding is visible together with the small dark area of Cassini's division near the extremes of the rings. The planet is past opposition and its shadow can be seen cast onto the ring system, behind to the left.
Saturn is beginning its slow climb in our Northern Hemisphere skies so imaging opportunities should continue to improve in the coming years - these images were captured at a rather low 26° - not the best for seeing!!
Unfortunately Saturn's rings tilt is decreasing dramatically with respect to Earth and in fact the rings will be edge on to us in March next year!
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT and a ZWO 290MM mono camera together with Baader filters.
Many thanks, as ever, for looking!
perhaps the latest telescopes will find another 13.72 billion years
U. S. Space and Rocket Center
Huntsville, Alabama USA
for day time view of Saturn 5:
www.flickr.com/photos/144155346@N08/36553966072/in/album-...
This image is taken 5 days after Saturn opposition on 01/09/2023. In opposition, Saturn’s rings appear brighter than usual. Apparent diameter is 19” arc second. Saturn orbits the Sun every 25 years. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD8, TV 2.5 power mate, Baader UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 290MC, Celestron motor focuser. Captured by Sharpcap pro Exposure 13ms, Gain 300, Bin 2x2, FPS 75, 6000 frames taken. Stacking by Autostakkart! Srizzled by 3x. Wavelets by Registax and processed in PS.
Saturn showing the Cassini Division within its rings and cloud bands in its atmosphere. The moon Titan is on the lower left.
Taken with a ZWO 1120MC planetary camera through an Explore Scientific 102ED refracting telescope using a 2x barlow lens.
I have been experimenting in autostakkert and created a slightly better version of Saturn . Even positioning the alinement points differently alters the finished picture let alone the numbers of frames stacked.
The Saturn Sky was offered for model years 2007-2010.
Pontiac sold a nearly identical version named the Pontiac Solstice which was offered one model year earlier in addition. It was also sold as the Opel GT and Daewoo G2X elsewhere.
Celestron C9.25" f/20
ZWO ASI224MC with IR cut filter
Gain = 400
Exposure = 7
Gamma off
WinJUPOS 6X120"
Cairns, Australia
My image of Saturn showing the storm which was visible near the northern polar region.
Image was taken on 5 June 2018 @ 14:30UTC when Saturn was 1,455,552,000km (9.12AU) away from earth, shining at magnitude -0.1.
Saturn was located in the constellation "Sagittarius".
This image was taken using a 8" SCT at a focal length of 6764mm/f33.3 with a 1/4" OSC CCD.
To the left of Saturn is Tethys, about 660 miles across (1,060 km). It was discovered by Cassini in 1684 and is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology.
On the lower right is Dione, also discovered by Cassini in 1684. At 697 miles in diameter (1122 km), Dione is the 15th largest moon in the Solar System, and is more massive than all known moons smaller than itself combined. About two thirds of Dione's mass is water ice, and the remaining is a dense core, probably silicate rock.
Distance to Saturn at the time of capture was 9.287 AU or 863,281,000 miles.
Image is a composite of LRGB channels and lastly to bring out the moons, the background layer was slightly intensified.
Celestron CPC800XLT
Altair GPCAMv2 130 Mono camera
Orion Shorty 2X Barlow
ZWO LRGB filter wheel
Time: 15.8.2021. 20:13 UTC
Location: Zagreb, Medvednica (850m)
Telescope: Celestron C6
Barlow: GSO x2.5
Camera: ASI120MM-s + Zwo RGB filters
Software: Sharpcap, Autostakkert!3, Registax6, Winjupos, Photoshop
So, I did actually capture color data. Just spent time reading about debayering and RAW8 video files, and...voila! Very pleased with the result, my best Saturn image ever. On this iteration I used the Autostakkert2 freeware, which was super easy. Some good color and detail here!
Captured this before the clouds rolled in tonight. My first Saturn shot with my ZWO ASI120MC Camera.
Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
Celestron CGEM mount
ZWO ASI120MC camera
Celestron 2X Barlow
800 frames stacked in Autoskakkert2
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself). At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural color mosaic. This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it.
The dark side of Saturn, its bright limb, the main rings, the F ring, and the G and E rings are clearly seen; the limb of Saturn and the F ring are overexposed. The "breaks" in the brightness of Saturn's limb are due to the shadows of the rings on the globe of Saturn, preventing sunlight from shining through the atmosphere in those regions. The E and G rings have been brightened for better visibility.
Earth, which is 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away in this image, appears as a blue dot at center right; the moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side. An arrow indicates their location in the annotated version. (The two are clearly seen as separate objects in the accompanying narrow angle frame: PIA14949.) The other bright dots nearby are stars.
This is only the third time ever that Earth has been imaged from the outer solar system. The acquisition of this image, along with the accompanying composite narrow- and wide-angle image of Earth and the moon and the full mosaic from which both are taken, marked the first time that inhabitants of Earth knew in advance that their planet was being imaged. That opportunity allowed people around the world to join together in social events to celebrate the occasion.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 20 degrees below the ring plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 19, 2013 at a distance of approximately 753,000 miles (1.212 million kilometers) from Saturn, and approximately 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) from Earth. Image scale on Saturn is 43 miles (69 kilometers) per pixel; image scale on the Earth is 53,820 miles (86,620 kilometers) per pixel. The illuminated areas of neither Earth nor the Moon are resolved here.
Consequently, the size of each "dot" is the same size that a point of light of comparable brightness would have in the wide-angle camera.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit www.nasa.gov/cassini and saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Saturn imaged in very poor conditions on the evening of the 18th June.
Unfortunately Saturn is very poorly placed for observing from my location and this IRRGB image was captured when the planet was at a roof tile hugging, chimney colliding altitude of only 11.6° - the planet only rises to a max. altitude of 14°.
The seeing was, of course, horrendous with the image wobbling and shimmering and I was very glad to get what I did get!
Celestron SCT 8" with a ZWO290MM camera and Baader filters.
Processed using infrared (IR3), green (GRN), and ultraviolet (UV3) filtered images of Mimas taken by Cassini's Narrow Angle Camera on October 22 2016.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Not a good photo of the planets and stars, but I think it is a very good example of the demons that all too often thwart the desires of amateur astronomers, who should relate well to this scene.
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn's atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini's mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.