By Helio C. Vital | 2019-06-18
On 06/19/2019 by Helio C. Vital | Website | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Here is the best image I got from the moon-Saturn conjunction.
It was taken at 00:16 (UTC-3h) on June 19, 2019, when Saturn was 3490.2 times more distant from the Earth than the moon. The centers of Saturn and the moon were only 25.8 arcminutes apart.
I used a Nikon CoolPix P900 camera to take the shot. No telescope was attached to the camera.
I then used the PhotoScape freeware to process the photo. By applying its backlight correction, I could brighten the dimmer Saturn relatively to the brighter surface of the moon. As a result, I could make Saturn visible, while preventing the image of the moon from becoming saturated.
Although distorted in its light distribution, the image is very interesting and informative.