Saturn

It’s Saturn season again!

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

Saturn

My sharpest image so far…

Saturn

A good time for planets.

Approaching Conjunction -2

Planetary conjunction, wide Field View

Approaching Conjunction

Get ready for a close encounter!

Saturn

With its largest Moon, Titan

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

Saturn Occultation

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

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

Milky Way

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

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

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

Wide Field Views

All images © R.Powell

Three Planets

Saturn Revisited

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

2011 – Solar System

2010 – Solar System

2009 – Solar System

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

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

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