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Originally Posted by matt
Well done, Trevor.
I think you may have also captured Enceladus off the western side of the ring plane, moving in toward the planet.
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Thanks Matt,
I believe that moon to be Tethys. Checked it out with "The Sky 6".
In identifying the moons in my images you have to disregard the date I have put on them. I send my data to Georg Fischer and he needs to know the UTC time and date. As I am imaging after midnight local time, my date changes however the date relative to the UTC day has not changed and doesn't change until the UTC time ticks past 23:59 UTC. At 00:01 UTC the date changes to the next day.
This means to accurately identify detail on Saturn, cloud features or storms, when imaging in the early hours of the morning, you need to create an ephemeris for the date before midnight local time.
As my planetarium program works on my lat & long and local time it has to be used for my local date & time to identify moons that may be in my images, not the UTC date that I label them with.
Regards
Trevor