Saturn

In 2024, Saturn's rings are nearly edge-on.

Date:  19 September 2024

FOV:  approximately 105" × 70", Saturn is about 20" (excluding the rings)

Telescope:  16" Cave Newtonian Reflector

Guiding:  tracking only

Mount:  German Equitorial

Camera:  ZWO ASI178MC Color CMOS Planetary

Filter:  none

Stacking:  one hundred and eighty frames in AutoStakkert!

Calibration frames:  none

Processing:  Pixinsight:  BlurXT, MultilinearTransform, HistoTrans, DynCrop

Location:  Darling Hill Observatory near Vesper, NY