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

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Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2025 Jan 07 - 17:50

Uploaded

2025 Jan 08 - 01:53

Objects

Saturn

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Constellation

Grus

Field centre

RA: 22^h46^m
Dec: -46°55'
Position angle: -179°16'

Field size

0°08' × 0°06'

Equipment

Player One Uranus-C
Chroma luminance filter and Astronomik 642 nm IR pass filter
ZWO ADC
2.5x Televue PowerMate
14inch f/10 LX200ACF SCT
EQ8 mount

Location

Urban Berkshire

Target name

Saturn and Titan's shadow

Title

Saturn, Titan and Titan's shadow

About this image

A tricky observation in far from ideal conditions just over the top of a neighbour's roof and too close for comfort to their boiler vent. I had to overexpose Saturn slightly to get enough of a sight of Titan as well as its shadow. This is a stack of 25% of the usable videos (about a third of those collected). Mainly IR data with a little colour data.

Peter

Files associated with this observation

2025-01-07-1750_UT_Tickner.png (160.5 kB)

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Comments

Geof Lewis, 2025 Jan 08 - 12:21 UTC

An excellent result given the awful conditions Peter. I got a reasonable IR at the same time as you, but not a matching OSC to colourise it.

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