Saturn:
Visual magnitude: +0.4
Apparent diameter: 17.3 arc-sec
Actual diameter: 120,536 km
Distance: 9.6 AU
Image:
Exposure: 5,900 video frames @ 640×480
Date: 2017-08-20
Location: Leumeah, NSW
Sky: suburban, clear.
Processing: Freemake, VirtualDub, Registax5, GIMP.
Cropping: digital crop, slightly enlarged.
Gear:
Telescope: Skywatcher ED120 refractor, 840mm focal length, f/7 focal ratio.
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R.
Camera: Canon EOS 60D.
No filter, no flattener.
Image © R.Powell
Cosmic Focus 
Great capture, Roger!
Thinking about Saturn’s menagerie of moons, maybe Saturn’s rings are in process of coalescing into planetary system with conditions for life…
(I’ve found interesting readings, https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/moons/)
🙂
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They are undoubtedly intimately related but which came first, the moons or the rings…..
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A causality dilemma…I do not know, could you tell me, wise man…:-)
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Probably the chicken.
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:-)))
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