[Tulloch (Andrew)]

For those of you not on Cloudy Nights, I finally got a clear morning to capture Saturn (almost) edge on. Saturn was sitting at about 15 - 20 degrees elevation, so I racked up the ADC and had a crack. Early captures were not great, but by the time dawn was breaking I was able to capture some presentable images.

Here's my best images from the morning, of most note was the complete absence of any rings, even when I ramped up the middle "level" slider in Photoshop. Colours aren't great, but the ring shadow is quite obvious.

The composite image shows a ringless Saturn and (top to bottom) Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus and Iapetus.

Images captures using a Celestron Evolution C9.25" SCT with ZWO ADC, Televue 2.5x Powermate and ASI224MC camera.