Observation by Peter Tickner: Saturn, Titan's shadow and Titan

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Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2024 Nov 20 - 20:24

Uploaded

2024 Nov 21 - 00:33

Objects

Saturn

Equipment

Player One Uranus-C
ZWO ADC
2.5x Televue PowerMate
14inch f/10 LX200ACF SCT
EQ8 mount

Location

Urban Berkshire

Target name

Saturn and Titan with shadow

Title

Saturn, Titan's shadow and Titan

About this image

It is a minor miracle there is anything in this image at all. I tried eight videos over the hour and this - the first one - was the only one producing more than a completely grainy faint image. Saturn was low over a neighbour's roof and close to his heating vent, on top of that the seeing was jumpy and poor anyway with patches of misty low c;loud interfering and getting worse after the first video. In the end I stacked 40% of 6,000 frames after trying various percentage combinations so that at least Saturn was less grainy. Video processed twice, once for Saturn and once for Titan then the two put back together.

Peter

Files associated with this observation

c2024-11-20-2024_1-Saturn_lapl5_ap6 40% stretched to show Titan.png (197.3 kB)

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