Saturn in August 2022 near opposition

https://v.redd.it/oc63qrkge0fe1

created by bubbleweed on 24/01/2025 at 21:25 UTC

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Comment by bubbleweed at 24/01/2025 at 21:28 UTC

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Saturn in good seeing conditions. This is with a C14 telescope using an ASI462mc camera. The planet is magnified further using a 2.5x powermate. An atmospheric dispersion corrector is also used to reduce atmospheric dispersion of red, green and blue light by Earth's atmosphere. Short videos like this are taken and processed into single images using stacking software. This process is sometimes called 'lucky imaging'.

Comment by CartographerEvery268 at 24/01/2025 at 22:40 UTC

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Nice

Comment by Correct_Presence_936 at 24/01/2025 at 23:03 UTC

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Perfect

Comment by Next-Cow-8335 at 26/01/2025 at 09:21 UTC

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I wish I was Dr. Manhattan, and could just visit every planet, and our sun.