Planet Saturn. 2025-07-04. 02.40 UTC (03:40 BST)

            Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542  Long -3.593

Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 385MC Astronomical Imaging Camera. Captured with the sky starting to lighten using Firecapture.

10000 frames captured with about 2500 processed with Registax 6. Final adjustments with G.I.M.P. and Adobe Lightroom. Image scaled up by 200% post processing

Seeing Conditions: Fairly good, with the target about 25° above the horizon. 

A reasonable outcome in the end. With the ring system almost edge on, a difficult one to capture. It took quite a few attempts to get satisfactory settings. 

Footnote:
At the time of capture the target was approximately 1.392 billion Km (870 million miles) from planet Earth.

Taken on: July 5, 2025

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