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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
Stunning Titan Transit Images by Chris Go
Chris Go is one of the world’s best planetary imagers. He lives in the Phillipines – a location fortunate enough to have extremely steady skies almost every clear night. Of course he loses several months a year due to typhoons and tropical storms, but when it’s clear, he captures some brilliant images. Yesterday was no [...]
A Failed Start to the Day
Well so far today hasn’t gotten off to the best start. The Titan Transit occurred this morning – a very rare event which I was planning and hoping to capture, but after days of clear and hot skies, the southerly change came literally about 1 hour before the transit begun. So it was completely obscured [...]
Upcoming Transits of Titan at Saturn – Feb + Mar 2009
Transits of one of Saturn’s Moons or the Moon’s shadow across Saturn’s disk are very rare events. Due to the tilt of the ring plane, we are only able to observe these events once every 14-15 years, when the rings are “edge on” as seen from our location on Earth. Right now, we are in [...]
Rare Saturn Titan Transit Animation
Hi all Every 14-15 years as Saturn orbits the Sun, we pass through the ring-plane of Saturn and from Earth, Saturn’s rings appear edge-on. In 2009, right now, we’re at that time. When you compare this image from early 2008, compared with this one taken almost exactly one year later (only a week ago), you can [...]
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