Hi all, These photos are of a different four-planet conjunction back in August 2010. I found them while organising my photos and realised I hadn’t posted them here on my blog. The first set was taken on the 7th August at The Entrance, NSW. It was the preparation shoot for the week after, when the Crescent [...]
Posts by Tag: Saturn
A Travelers Guide to the Planets – I'm Excited!
I’m very excited! A month or so ago I was contacted by Essential Media, a production company who were putting together a series on the solar system and the planets for National Geographic. They were after some video footage of what Saturn looks like through an amateur telescope, and of course I happily supplied the best footage [...]
Saturn with Rhea Shadow Transit
On Wednesday night I captured Saturn in above average seeing – the second time that week! When I’d finished processing the images, I noticed a faint Moon near the edge of Saturn, and a dark feature just under the ring plane. When blinking between the two images, I saw that the feature had moved, so [...]
A Late Season Saturn in Good Seeing
On Sunday night, 3rd May, I was out capturing some images of the Moon for a friend and even though I was using the ED80 and DMK, I noticed the seeing was quite steady so once finished with the Moon, I put the 12″ Newt back on my EQ6 mount. I was pleased to see [...]
Incredible Saturn Transit Images by Hubble Space Telescope
On February 24 2009, a rare quadruple transit was taking place at Saturn. Titan, Mimas, Dione and Enceladus were all transiting Saturn, along with shadows of 3 out of the 4 Moons! Fortunately for us, the Hubble Space Telescope was on-hand to image this extraordinary event and these beautiful and fascinating images have just been [...]
Titan Transit Images – Wrap Up for 2009
The last transit of Titan across Saturn for 2009 occurred last week, on the 12th March. Unfortunately, yet again, I was clouded out for the event so I have had to live and love it through the images of others. Some friends of mine from IceInSpace and other forums were able to capture some great [...]
Saturn at Opposition on March 8th, 2009
The ringed world Saturn reaches opposition for 2009 on the 8th March, which means that the Sun, the Earth and Saturn form a straight line in space. It also means Saturn is visible all night long – rising at Sunset, passing overhead at midnight and setting at Sunrise. Of course overhead doesn’t necessarily mean Saturn [...]
Titan Shadow Transits on Saturn in 2009
There’s already been three transits of Titan across Saturn in 2009, and maybe, like me, you’ve been clouded out for most of them. All is not lost, however. There’s still one more transit of Titan itself in 2009 (a grazing transit, with its shadow, on March 12 at 22:15 AEDST (11:15 UT)), followed by a [...]
Photos of the Transit of Titan Across Saturn
Unfortunately I was clouded out during the 3rd (out of 4 for this year) transit of Titan across Saturn on the night of the 24th of Feb. Fortunately though, a few friends of mine got clear skies and reasonable seeing to be able to capture this rare event. The image above is by Anthony Wesley [...]
Titan Transit and Planet Conjunction Washed Out
Pick a day when you don’t want it to be cloudy.. any day.. well, last night/this morning was that day for me. A day when 3 important and interesting celestial events were due to occur: The third transit of Titan across Saturn (on the night of the 24th February) Comet Lulin closest approach to Earth, [...]
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of IceInSpace, and this is my personal blog site and image gallery.
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