By Hassan Dadashi Arani | 2025-07-17
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Titan's shadow on Saturn
On 07/18/2025 04:03 am by Steven Bellavia | Website | Smithfield, VA
A rare shadow transit of Titan on Saturn, from this morning.
This only occurs every 15 years.
Two more transits will occur this year on August 3 and October 6.
After the October transit, the next transit will be in the year 2040
Explore Scientific 152mm Maksutov-Cassegrain
ZWO ASI 183MC Pro camera
SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro equatorial mount
Captured 3,000 frames at 40 milliseconds each through SharpCap.
Aligned and stacked the best 40% of those frames using AutoStakkert.
Wavelet sharpening and denoising with AstroSurface.