Saturn, with Titan in transit - 2024-06-30 1001 UTC

            My first Saturn of this apparition! The rings are now close to edge-on, so we will see Saturn's moons parading across its face for the next 18 months or so. Titan orbits Saturn about once every 16 Earth days, so opportunities for shooting a transit come a little less than once every 2 weeks. But you also have to be on the right part of the planet to watch the event, which takes about 5 hours. Right now, the Pacific coast of North America is well placed for this.

I shot this with the C14 on Cerritos College campus with a ZWO ASI224MC, 2x Barlow, ADC, and UV/IR cut filter. SER videos were captured using FireCapture 2.7. This image is produced from 7 separate SER files taken between 0956 and 1004 UTC. Videos were stacked in AutoStakkert, and the results were processed in PixInsight. WinJUPOS was used to register the images and derotate them. The result from WinJUPOS underwent some small adjustments in PixInsight and GIMP. 

CM longitudes are:
CM I: 144°
CM II: 118°
CM III: 61°
   

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Taken on: July 1, 2024

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