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My first observation of Cassini division in Saturn rings
2023-10-9 08:58
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Saturn is a beautiful planet. The history of its discovery can be found here.

Saturn is a special planet because of its rings. It is my favourite object to observe with a telescope. The figure below shows its ring struction and its moons.

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Saturn rotates and its ring evolves with time (see the figure below). Therefore, we will see different appeareancs.

Saturnoppositions-animated.gif

More interesting features could be found in the wiki page.


Saturn has a few rings. There is a gap between two big rings. It is called "Cassini division" named after its discoverer.  I always wanted to see it, but never succeeded until last night. I bought a second-hand ZWO electronic eyepiece at XianYu and it took me 600 RMB. Here are a couple of pictures I took the other day. I think I do see Cassini division eventually although they are not very clear (so you have to zoom in to see it..:D ). 

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Date: 05-10-2023


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Date: 08-10-2023

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