Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees! This also means that I missed the peak altitude by .

This was the best of 20 runs, each at 240 second with an exposure of 13ms, using autogain to keep the histogram around 90% of max. Best 10% processed out of 17K frames but autostakkert showed that I should have gone with the best 5%.. seeing and transparency was that bad.

seeing was average 5/10 to start but steadily got worse. Transparency.. letsee. .full moon less than 45 degrees away.. poor! 2/10

Titan does show up a little in the bottom right. Other moons should be in the image as well (Dione, Tethys, Enceladus) but do not. I will try wavesharp again to bring them out.

By kevin

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