Saturn with Titan Shadow transit, March 28

[Kal]

I was out with my refractor on the mount tonight (taking images to produce a Periodic Error graph of my mount of all things) when I decided to take a peek at Saturn. With my powermate and 9mm nagler in place, I would see a tiny shadow on the planets surface. I should have checked to see what was happening withg Saturn tonight, if I'd known there was going to be a titan shadow transit I would have taken my C11 out to cool down. Anyway, pulled out my Toucam, and grabbed a couple of clips.

At F/15 in the 5 inch refractor (with my 2.5x powermate), the image scale was still quite small, so I have resampled the image 150%

[Lester]

Good one Andrew, nice banding plus the shadow of Titan.

[mental4astro]

Hi Kal,

Isn't the way it happens, busy doing other things but still sneak in a squizz at an old favourite and 'POW! Cop this one!'

Nice shot at short notice, mate :thumbsup:.

Mental

[cookie8]

Nice capture Kal of such a rare event.:thumbsup:

[Kal]

Thanks Lester, Alexander and Vincent.



And a most satisfying POW as well!! :)

[Quark]

Well done Andrew,

Nice capture, shame you didn't have your C11 ready.
Still, a very nicely resolved image of the transit.

Cheers
Trevor