Contains:  Solar system body or event
Saturn on August 20, 2023, JDJ

Saturn on August 20, 2023

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Saturn on the night of August 20, 2023 under average to above average seeing and above average transparency.  Saturn's disc had a diameter of 18.9" and a visual magnitude of +1.0 at this time.  This is my first worthwhile capture of Saturn for 2023, coming only a week before opposition.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give me ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 375 and an exposure of 20 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 20% of ~15000 frames captured over 240 seconds). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6.  De-rotated and combined 3 sub images in WinJupos.

Original version:  Saturn in OSC RGB at 04:23 UTC

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