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Community photo entitled Titan's shadow on Saturn by Steven Bellavia on 09/04/2025 at Smithfield, VA

Titan's shadow on Saturn

On 09/04/2025 03:00 am by Steven Bellavia | Website | Smithfield, VA

I started around 11:00 PM and went past 4:30 AM to capture one of the remaining few Titan shadow transits on Saturn. (There are only two left, and then not again for 15 years)
Conditions were poor, but this is the best image from around 2:45 AM

I used an Explore Scientific 152mm, f/16 Maksutov-Cassegrain with a ZWO ASI 183MC Pro camera and IDAS UV-IR cut filter (425nm to 665nm)

I used 40 millisecond (25 fps) exposures in SharpCap, aligned and stacked the best 1,000 of 3,000 frames, from a 2-minute video, in AutoStakkert and wavelet sharpening-denoising in Lucien AstroSurface.