Observation by kevin kell: Saturn 20260829

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kevin kell

Observer

kevin kell

Observed

2026 Aug 29 - 08:18

Uploaded

2026 Aug 29 - 11:24

Objects

Saturn

Equipment

C9.25, x1.5barlow, zwoasi585mc, uv/ir cut filter

Exposure

13ms

Location

SCGO Yarker Ontario Canada

Target name

Saturn

Title

Saturn 20260829

About this image

Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees! This also means that I missed the peak altitude by <this much>.

This was the best of 20 runs, each at 240 second with an exposure of 13ms, using autogain to keep the histogram around 90% of max. Best 10% processed out of 17K frames but autostakkert showed that I should have gone with the best 5%.. seeing and transparency was that bad.

seeing was average 5/10 to start but steadily got worse. Transparency.. letsee. .full moon less than 45 degrees away.. poor! 2/10

Titan does show up a little in the bottom right. Other moons should be in the image as well (Dione, Tethys, Enceladus) but do not. I will try wavesharp again to bring them out.

Files associated with this observation

2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp.jpg (87.7 kB)

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