Saturn, Feb 19 + moon transits

[bird]

A nice surprise this morning, good seeing and a pair of moon transits on Saturn.

Here's a quick 2-frame animation showing Tethys + its shadow entering from the right and also Rhea leaving the disk on the left.

Both moons are approx 0.2" in size and magnitude 13.

cheers, Bird

[DavidU]

Nice one Anthony. Have you done any more improvements on the scope?

[bird]

David, I'm still using the 14.5" Royce conical mirror, the next major change will be when the 16" mirror is ready to use, and then after that a new PGR camera, not sure when that will happen..

cheers, Bird

[Kevnool]

Thats a great Saturn Bird.
The Transits look great.
Cheers Kev.

[Troy]

Nice animation and heaps of detail there. Was the animation created by using the red channel?

[bird]

Hi Troy, yes this is only red channel data.

cheers, Bird

[bird]

Here is an image from earlier, showing Rhea and its shadow in transit. Tethys is a long way off the disk to the left.

cheers, Bird

[Quark]

Love the animation Bird,

Tethys and shadow look great as does Rhea.
Have had a very close look in the region of the STrZ for evidence of storm activity but can't detect any.

Love you RGB when I look at it the best description that comes to mind is, simply sublime.

Regards
Trevor

[iceman]

Wow, very nice work Anthony. Looks like you're getting some nice early morning seeing.

[bird]

Thanks, yes the seeing was very good for a while this morning, don't know how long it'll keep up...

cheers, Bird

[SkyViking]

Outstanding images, very impressive. The level of detail is incredible. I especially enjoy the RGB image too.

[StephenM]

Great stuff Anthony! Good to see some Saturn images coming in again.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Lester]

Top image and animation Anthony. It's amazing to see the disk of those small moon.

Thanks for the view.

[danielsun]

Brilliant work as usual Bird.;) The transit animation and image is just stunning.

Cheers Daniel.