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Tag: Saturn

2023-03-02 Venus & Mars Conjunction Day Zero 200mm

Conjunction

Venus and Jupiter Conjunction!

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Venus & Jupiter

Venus and Jupiter on approach!

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Saturn

It’s Saturn season again!

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2021 Review: Post 1 of 3

Moon & Planets A reprise of my best Solar System images taken during the year. What! No Comet Leonard? Well … More

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Saturn

My sharpest image so far…

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Saturn

A good time for planets.

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Approaching Conjunction -2

Planetary conjunction, wide Field View

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Approaching Conjunction

Get ready for a close encounter!

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2020-07-03 Saturn & its brightest moon Titan (lower right).

Saturn

With its largest Moon, Titan

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Saturn Occultation – April 2019

This is my DSLR image taken a few minutes after Saturn reappeared following its occultation by the Moon. Here in … More

amateur astronomy, Lunar, Moon, Occultation, Saturn, Solar System

Saturn Occultation

Next week will bring a challenging photo opportunity, with Saturn due to be occulted by the Moon. Here in Macarthur … More

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Saturn Near Full Tilt

Saturn’s rings are at their widest tilt for the year this month (September 2018), at 26.3°, just short of last year’s … More

Rings, Saturn, Solar System, Tilt

Milky Way

This is what a galaxy looks like from the inside! Taken in 2016, this wide-field image shows the glory of … More

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Saturn

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 … More

Astronomy, Rings, Saturn, Solar System

Venus in the Evening

Magnificent Venus returned to the evening sky in July 2016 and will remain dominant in the Western sky until March … More

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Wide Field Views

All images © R.Powell  

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Three Planets

Jupiter, Saturn and Mars  are riding high in the Northern sky at the moment. All images © R.Powell  

Jupiter, Mars, Planets, Saturn, Solar System

Saturn Revisited

  Having begun to understand how to process planetary images using video clip frames stacked in Registax, I went back into … More

Planet Rings, Saturn, Solar System

2011 – Solar System

This year I imaged the Sun and the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus: All images © R.Powell  

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2010 – Solar System

My best Solar System images taken in 2010 ….and some interesting planetary conjunctions:   All images © R.Powell  

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2009 – Solar System

These were my first tentative steps into the Solar System with my astrophotography. I was using a Canon 300D back … More

Comet, Jupiter, planet, Saturn, Solar System, Sun

Occultation Of Saturn

We experienced another occultation of Saturn by the Moon on 4th August 2014. This image was obtained by my Canon 60D … More

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Saturn and the Moon

An occultation of Saturn by the Moon occurred on 14th May 2014, meaning that for about an hour the Moon … More

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