I am here replicating the 3D experiment
I did on Jupiter using two recently unreleased images I captured of Saturn. Although Saturn's rotation is similar to that of Jupiter (just one hour longer), the visible details on its disk are considerably fewer, and the rings also exhibit very little (if any) variation between images taken minutes or even hours apart. Hence, for this stereo pair, I have used images taken further apart in time to maximize the resulting 3D effect.
The image on the right of the panel was captured on August 24, just 3 days before this year's opposition, when the Sun, Earth, and Saturn were aligned, and the arriving light was fully frontal and casted no shadow of the planet on its rings. The second image was taken two weeks later on September 9th and clearly shows how both Saturn and Earth moved away from their mutual alignment in the meantime, with the shadow of the planet on the rings distinctly visible as well as a slight changes in the perspective (angle and size) of the planet and rings.
As earlier recommended for Jupiter, expand the image to full screen, focus on the center of the frame, and gently cross your eyes until the separate images merge, revealing Saturn in a captivating 3D perspective. You may use a finger to aid in the process if desired.
The image of August 24 is the derotation of 8 sequences of 60" each for each filter RGB (24 videos in total).
The image of September 9 is the derotation of 5 sequences of 60" each for each filter RGB (15 videos in total).
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