Saturn with Dione in transit.....almost ( Niall MacNeill )

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Saturn with Dione in transit.....almost

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Saturn with Dione in transit.....almost

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: Celestron EdgeHD 14"
Imaging Cameras: QHYCCD QHY5III200M
Mounts: Software Bisque Paramount ME II GEM
Filters: Chroma Blue 1.25" · Chroma Green 1.25" · Chroma Red 1.25"
Accessories: Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow (BLW-2125)
Software: Adobe Photoshop · Cor Berrevoets et al. Registax · Emil Kraaikamp AutoStakkert! · Grischa Hahn WinJUPOS · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight · Software Bisque TheSky · Torsten Edelmann FireCapture

Date: Aug. 9, 2023

Frames: 115000

FPS: 192

Exposure per frame: 5 ms

Resolution: 1500x1000

File size: 701.2 KB

Locations: Home property, Wattle Flat, NSW, Australia

Data source: Backyard

Saturn on August 8th, looking majestic as usual.
Dione was almost in transit, just grazing the southern limb of the planet and coincidentally, at the midpoint timestamp it was quite central. Mimas was also detected, having just transited, off the right hand limb.
There is a noticeable white oval in the NTeZ, just on the left side of the Central Meridian. The south polar region has more activity than the north and there seems to be a brown coloured turbulent layer in the green of the STeZ.

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