Date: 2022-08-06

Saturn and its satellites

As Saturn approaches its opposition, I got a chance to observe and take shots of this beautiful ringed planet with very good seeing condition in the morning of August 6, at 3am EDT.

Camera: PlayerOne Mars-C
Barlow: Televue 3X
Scope: Sky-watcher SynScan 350 Dobsonian
Exposure: 12ms @82fps
Video length: 5x120s
Gain: 367

Satellites are stacked separately, composited, and positioned carefully onto the main picture with Saturn