Nice observation of Saturn

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to night saturn is probably one of the brightest....
the best report i can give are the moons ( i spot 4 nos ) ....Rhea, Enceldus, Tethys and Huygens ( i guess these are the ones as they are the larger visible ones amongst the 16 of them.
i hardly see the moons on saturn until now :)

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wucheeyiun wrote:to night saturn is probably one of the brightest....
the best report i can give are the moons ( i spot 4 nos ) ....Rhea, Enceldus, Tethys and Huygens ( i guess these are the ones as they are the larger visible ones amongst the 16 of them.
i hardly see the moons on saturn until now :)

nagler t6 7mm with flt110....
mm...you should be able to see Titan further away from Saturn too.
Just imagine it...Titan is similar size as the Earth, so the view of Earth from Titan's orbit would be similar in magnitude except maybe Earth will have phases from Titan .
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Titan is the biggest. It should be the easiest to see. On my scope, it is a disc unlike a star. :)
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Yeah...one of the 4 little planets i saw around saturn last night is probably Titan....
the seeing was extremely good, on the backdrop of saturn and its moon, i can also see plenty of little star clusters. Amazing view :)

kind of reminded how big is the Universe is....
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