Saturn Nearing Opposition
Taken by John Chumack on July 14, 2020 @
Dayton, Ohio USA
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Date Taken: 2020:07:14 20:07:21
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My first decent Saturn of the Season...not bad for 834.89 Million miles from Earth. Saturn reaches Opposition on July 20th. A week after Jupiter which just occurred on the 13th-14th.
I had some really sharp viewing early Tuesday morning!
I just couldn't sleep Monday night, something was telling me to go out back and look at Jupiter and Saturn...so I decide to do some planetary imaging from my backyard in Dayton, before I went to shoot the Comet again before sunrise...I was happy to see we had decent seeing for a little while, that is before the clouds rolled in over Jupiter & Saturn around 2:30am....but not before I got a set of nice LRGB images of Saturn... Seeing was very steady wish I could have had time to get a full set of Jupiter LRGB images on Jupiter, but clouds definitely like to mess with you whenever things are going good!
It turned out pretty decent for Saturn being so low in altitude at my Latitude.
Capture details:
I used my very old orange tube Celestron C-11 Telescope,...my second oldest telescope, but it has very good optics, and my QHY5III290M Cmos Monochrome camera, Filter Wheel LRGB, no Barlow lens this time, just prime focus, Bisque MyT Mount,...and decent seeing for a change. Fire-capture Ser Video 78 FPS capture, LRGB 4800 frames stacked, Autostakkert, Registax6, Maxim DL, and Adobe CC 2020.
Planet details at time of shooting Magnitude: 0.13, Diameter: 18.38 arcsec, Resolution: 0.22", CM: CMI=199.2° CMIII=4.8°
Best Regards,
John Chumack
Photographer's website:
https://www.galacticimages.com
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