Saturn through a 10-inch telescope

I let Saturn drift through the field of view of my 10-inch Dobsonian reflector while videoing it. With zooming in, I got frames that I ran through Registax to get a clearer image. In that image, Cassini's division is visible in the rings along with other details.

Registax can be downloaded from:
http://www.astronomie.be/registax/

To find where Saturn will be in the sky this year, use the website Sky View Cafe:

http://www.skyviewcafe.com/

Saturn will be in the constellation Leo in 2009.

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[MrSquareyez]

@TheStarWatchingRock the last i heard, saturn does have s surface. and also, if it didn't, how are the clouds and rings being held in place? in orbit? the center of the planet, the core, spins, thus creating gravity, there for there must be a solid surface on saturn :) otherwise there would be no saturn.

[TheStarWatchingRock]

@MrSquareyez

Rotation is not responsible for gravity; the presence of mass is. The gas giants increase in pressure and density as you go deeper into them, and eventually you have a transition from a gas state to a dense fluid-like state. The change is so gradual that there is no surface to speak of. Jupiter and Saturn are theorized to have rocky cores, but the pressure there is many millions times the atmospheric pressure on Earth.

Stars definitely don't have a surface; how do they exist?

[aerodynamic3794]

Can you see Saturn through a 6-inch reflector telescope?

[TheStarWatchingRock]

@aerodynamic3794 Yes, fairly easily. On a night when the air is steady, you should also be able to see Cassini's division and several of Saturn's moons with that scope.

[Jiinxey24]

I love astronomy !

[looloopeekeesugar]

how do you locate the planets?

[YewMakeMeLolz]

Someone tell me a good telescope that I could buy to see this!!!!! ):

[jayejayeee]

some really good stuff here

[SuperDogbrown]

brilliant video

[Guilland23]

This is exactly what I can see with my 3 inch telescope. Funny! Astronomy is something really exciting.

[denispkpk]

To locate the planets(or anything else you want) download Stellarium.It's a really cool program you just put your location and the time of the year and it shows you everything.

[Xrebells]

@bicnarok you dont learn anything from that! much better if u just get info about witch direction the planets are and what time of day/night they appear, then u look for it, thats more fun and u learn more ;D

[AccessDenied55]

Saturn is so damn pretty, I remember when I saw it for the first time

[TheStarWatchingRock]

@hafieq

Correct. More light is needed to activate the cones in your retina (which process color). When you view nebulae and galaxies, the light is only enough to activate the rods, so they only appear in greyscale. Stars and planets, however, are bright enough to activate cones, so these do appear in color.

[pdoddy12]

To see it in a book is one thing. To physically see it, even from 1 billion miles away, is incredible