Observation by Peter Tickner: Saturn in IR 15th August

Uploaded by

Peter Tickner

Observer

Peter Tickner

Observed

2025 Aug 15 - 00:44

Uploaded

2025 Aug 15 - 11:21

Objects

Saturn

Planetarium overlay

Enable overlay
Show stars
Label stars
Show deep sky objects
Label deep sky objects
Show constellation boundaries
Show constellation sticks
Show constellation labels
Show RA/Dec grid

Constellation

Virgo

Field centre

RA: 13^h14^m
Dec: -01°54'
Position angle: -90°06'

Field size

0°07' × 0°06'

Equipment

Player One Uranus-C
Astronomik 742 nm long pass filter
ZWO ADC
2.5x Televue PowerMate
14 inch f/10 Meade LX200 ACF SCT
Mesu E200 Mk 2 Mount

Location

urban Berkshire

Target name

Saturn in IR

Title

Saturn in IR 15th August

About this image

Remarkably another very steady night of Saturn at the start of another heatwave for the UK. This was one of my best de-rotated stacks covering a 20 minute period stacking the best 40% of each video, a luxury of the quality of the seeing. Saturn is still lower in our skies than in the Southern hemisphere but at least it is high enough now to get some good nights! I hope to post an animation of the features rotating in due course.

Peter

Files associated with this observation

Saturn 0033-0055 UT.png (151.5 kB)

Like this image

Philip Masding, Mike Foulkes, Dominic Ford

Copyright of all images and other observations submitted to the BAA remains with the owner of the work. Reproduction of work by third parties is expressly forbidden without the consent of the copyright holder. By submitting images to this online gallery, you grant the BAA permission to reproduce them in any of our publications.

Registered charity no. 210769
Registered company no. 117572

For more information including contact details, click here.

Our Terms of Use are here.

Our Privacy Policy is here.