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Saturn

An RGB image of Saturn (south up, showing the storm broken up in smaller pieces), and an animation in red light between 21:09 and 21:44UTC (south down, the storm again visible)

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn

With what appears another spoke moving along the B-ring

R-RGB

22:05-23:54

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn Animation

Another animation of Saturn.

21:19 - 23:56UTC

Red:

Green:

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn

A 'big' stack of about 20.000 frames for each channel, taken in a couple of hours time (structure within the bands are lost, but the banding is pretty sharp)

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn Animation

Animation of Saturn in RGB lights showing a nice big storm on Saturn.
20:58 - 23:38 UTC.

This one is in red light:


And another in red light but in much higher contrast:

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn

Saturn and Tethys during good seeing conditions. Not perfect, because the blue channel was noticably worse than the red channel, but for the altitude (37 degrees) I don't think you can get much better!

The image is an R-RGB recording.



In the bottom animation (22:15-23:41) you can again see a black dot moving around the B-ring. Similar to what is seen in the April 22 and March 10 images. Spokes?

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn Animation

My best Saturn recording under pretty good seeing conditions. It shows several storms and cloud structures rotating between 01:01 and 02:30 UTC.

Also, I believe a spoke is visible on the ring structure at the right of Saturn. Look closely, and you'll see a black structure moving from right to left and back again in the lower right ring structure.

All unages are R-RGB images (10 in total).

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn in Infrared

Image shows Saturn (and Titan) in three infrared light bands;
red = >807nm, green: 742-807nm, blue: 685-742nm. To get a sharper seperation between the filters, the 807nm image was removed from the 742nm, and the 742nm was removed from 685nm. Capture settings (and transparancy) were the same during the recording; 1/30s, 30fps, 1023gain.

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn

Second light of the modified DMK21 camera (read more under wiki)

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Saturn

Seeing conditions could be slightly better, but still I'm pleased with the results.

equipment used
DMK21AU04.AS
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ
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