Bottom to top :
February 6th 2005
January 21th 2006
March 7th 2007
Compare the rings appearance between these three views.
Fully open in 2003, the rings will close throughout the decade and will be edge-on in september 2009.
Solar system
Moon
Saturn occultation : march 2nd 2007
Meade LX90 + barlow 2x - ToUcam proIII (raw mode, 5 im/sec)
Stacking (registax) of 200 out of 600 frames + wavelets (Registax)
Venus on Avril 20th, 2007 - 19h06 TU - Rouen (France)
Saturn occultation : may 22th 2007
Venus on June 5th, 2007 - 19h19 TU - Rouen (France)
Filters : W47 + IR-cut
Meade LX90 + barlow 2x - ToUcam proIII (raw mode, 5 im/sec)
Stacking (registax) of 450 out of 600 frames + wavelets (Registax)
Filters : stack of 2 W47 + 1 IR-cut
Jupiter on July 20th, 2007 - Rouen (France)
Meade LX90 + barlow 2x - ToUcam proIII (raw mode, 5 im/sec)
Red filter : W23
Stacking (Registax3) of 200 out of 600 frames + wavelets (Registax3 and Iris)
Mars on July 25th, 03h01 UT, 2007 - Rouen (France)
Meade LX90 + barlow 2x - ToUcam proIII (raw mode, 5 im/sec)
Red filter : W23
Stacking (Registax4) of 60 out of 600 frames + wavelets (Registax4)
Collimation of the day
Deep sky
Material