These images cover the 2021 season. Saturn reached opposition on 2nd August 2021.
This year the rings are continuing to close as Saturn moves north, although it is still far south of the ecliptic. This means that Saturn is still very low in the sky and at a time when it never gets truly dark at my latitude (53°N). So imaging is as difficult as last year.
The images are in chronological order.
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This picture was taken with my ETX125. The inclination of the rings was 17·7° and Saturn was at an altitude of 18°. It was 8·99 AU (1·35×10^9 Km.) away and subtended 18·0 arc-seconds.
Date and Time: 17th July 2021 01:29 UT Camera: DFK 21AF04 Telescope: ETX125 Capture: ICCapture. 1/19", 1023 gain, 3600 frames @ 15 fps Processing: Registax5. 3449 frames drizzled X2, colours aligned, wavelets 1-2 = 20 Focus Magic 7. |