From: Jean-Christophe Meriaux,
Date: 2/27/2011 at 2.22am PST
Location: San Bruno, California
Telescope: EdgeHD 11 with DMK 21AU04.AS Camera
Seeing: 5/10
This is one of the first picture taken with my new Celestron EdgeHD 11″. The seeing was above average – but not great. Visually at x450, the Saturn was impressive, with a great contrast on the Cassini division, and details easily visible in the band. This is a LRGB picture combining about 2,500 frames. Saturn's satellite were captured on the luminance layer..
Saturn satellites from left to right:
- Dione : magnitude 10.5
- Enceladus: magnitude 11.9
- Rhea: magnitude 9.9
- Thetys: magnitude 10.4
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