A Saturn family portrait with 7 moons
A Saturn family portrait with 7 moons
Occasionally, the seeing gods are kind - it was sharp this morning! Good data is so much easier to process too. Subtle details on the planet with ripples in belts on both hemispheres, and many moons nearby. Orange fuzzball Titan is at upper right, there's also Enceladus, Dione, Tethys, Rhea & faint Mimas just left of the rings. Iapetus, having completed a very rare transit of Saturn two mornings ago, is farther to the lower right. I've added a labelled version and also a closer view with 'just' six moons.
Celestron C14 @f/22, ZWO ASI290MM, 21mins RGB, red filter only for the smaller icy moons.
Copyright: Andy Casely
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