By Steven Bellavia | 2025-08-04
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Titan shadow transit across Saturn's disk
On 08/03/2025 04:17 am by Nishat Khan | Website | Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Titan, Saturn's largest moon casting a shadow across the disk. These shadow transits can be observed every 15 years when Saturn's ring are edge on as observed from Earth. This was taken on the morning of August 3 under poor transparency but good seeing conditions.
C8, AVX mount, ASI585mc, 1.5x Barlow
Firecapture settings: Gain-450, Exposure-20ms, FPS-47; 90 seconds video every 3 minutes
Processed using Autostakkert(30% stacked) and Gimp