"127mm Meade Apo refractor, Televue x3 Barlow and QHY5111462c camera. Early hours of the 12th Sept 2024 taken from Outon Broad Suffolk. Clear skies but turbulent so achieving focus was difficult at F23. Software used: SharpCap 4.1, PIPP, AS!3, Registax6, Affinity Photo2 and AstroSharp and Clean.
The whole Jodrell Plank team were out, in force in the early hours of the 12th of September, to capture our first video clips this year of the majestic planet Saturn. What was very noticeable was by how much Saturn's rings had closed since we last imaged the planet! The solar system is a very dynamic system. As an unexpected bonus we were able to image four of the planet's moons; Rhea, Tethys, Enceladus and Dione.
Before we closed down our operations for the night, we used the 127mm telescope to obtain spectra for the stars: Vega, Altair, Tarazed and Ashlain." - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
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