By Cecille Kennedy | 2025-10-02
Golden Saturn fleeing away with Dione in Transit
On 10/02/2025 12:00 am by Brian Martin | Website | Riverside CA USA
Saturn on October 2 with Dione in transit. This is under excellent seeing and perfect collimation. I couldn't get better than this if I wanted. I pushed the 16 to its limits. Everything came together. This is a derotation of 6 images each being 3 minutes each at 150fps 20% quality. The hardest part on this was literally collimation of the telescope once excellent conditions arrived. There’s a nice sized storm on Saturn’s Southern end. There is a slight chance we have a few more storms around the planet as I observed twin storms a week prior. The bands have great detail and show they are not perfectly striaght but a series of broken waves similar to Jupiter but on a less noticeable scale. These broken bands can be see on the North part of Saturn.
This was not easy, in fact is my best Saturn to date.
Clear skies!
SCOPE: ORION XXG 16 DOB
CAMERA: Player One URANUS C
ZWO ADC/ 3x Televue Barlow
FILTER: SVBONY UV/IR CUT
See https://app.astrobin.com/i/ao3oi7