Despite the low altitude, the seeing was ok, especially in red light.

R-RGB of Saturn under good conditions, at least considering the low altitude (<25 degrees).

First image of Saturn of this Season. The seeing was rather poor, but nevertheless it was really nice to be imaging again!

Update: it appears it is actually possible to capture the hexagon shape on the north pole of Saturn! I went back to three infrared (>742nm) recordings I made this night (21:54, 22:04, 22:19 UTC), and it looks like the hexagon is there!





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Despite the low altitude (30 degrees), I finally had some decent conditions to image Saturn.

Rather poor seeing conditions, but using an IR channel for lumininance did help a bit. Saturn is really difficult from my location this year. The altitude is < 30 degrees, and finding nights of good seeing has been very challenging lately.

Saturn and moons Rhea, Tethys and Dione (from top to bottom).

The image was shot in excellent seeing conditions, especially considering the low altitude of 34 degrees. Just an excellent evening for imaging Saturn...

Along with an animation in green light showing plenty of spokes in the b-rings of saturn. More animations will follow.

In pretty good seeing conditions.

00:07-00:42UT

Recording in red light, showing at least one spoke (and of course the very prominent Storm and some small disturbances 'in front' of the storm

RGB image of Saturn shot under pretty good seeing conditions.

And an animation in red light:


And green light:


Both animations show several spokes moving.

And an animation red light covering about a hour and 15 minutes. Several spokes can again be seen in the B-rings.