Saturn 20160417

Apr18
by catz on April 18, 2016 at 08:55 and modified on April 18, 2016. at 08:58
Posted In: astronomy

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Got up a little late on Sunday morning.. it was twilight already and Saturn was just about to go behind some trees. Wow.. the altitude is quite low! Note the scale of this image against Jupiter is the same.
Poor seeing, low altitude makes for very little detail.
Saturn was 23 degrees up off the horizon with an apparent diameter (with rings) of 42 arc seconds.
I will try next time to get it at zenith, which is approx 04:20 EDT