Saturn 20240906

Sep07
by kevin on September 7, 2024 at 12:05 and modified on September 7, 2024. at 12:05
Posted In: astronomy

A reminder that Saturn opposition 2024 is tonight/tomorrow and this is a good chance to get your best planetary observing/imaging of the season. At approx 01:00 EDT Sunday, Saturn will be az: 177 deg, alt 38 degrees

of course the weather is not cooperating:

I will try in any event and perhaps get some sucker holes to shoot through… I only need 30 or 60 seconds! for each imaging run.


This image was from Friday morning just before dawn, unfortunately veryvery low in the west, only 18 degrees of altitude.

This makes seeing very poor and also drops the effective magnitude.

Saturns’ diameter was 19 arc seconds and this is the best 10% of 7700 frames of 23ms each.