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| Saturn |
| When you see Saturn in a scope, it is one of those sights that somehow brings home the reality that there are other planets floating around out there with us in the vast cold emptiness of space. Saturn is one of the four giant gas planets in our solar system, and it is huge. Saturn and it’s rings would just fit in between the earth and our moon with a little room to spare, but not much. For the last years Saturn has been tipped enough to show it's rings like this. In a few more years they will be almost in line with us and harder to see, and then it'll tip so we can see the underside view. Saturn has at least 30 moons, here you see five of the largest and brightest. Titan, the largest, is larger than both Mercury and Pluto, and if it were floating separately around the sun, it would be a planet. The Cassini probe launched in 1998 has finally arrived at Saturn and will be orbiting and examining this planet it's rings and the closer moons for the next 4 years. Cassini will also drop a probe onto Titan. |
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8" F10 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope, 40mm
eyepiece, Canon G2 camera 3x
30 of ISO 50 at 1/10 sec for Saturn plus 5
pictures at ISO 100 and 2 sec for the moons |