Saturn's moons observed tonight

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 1:45 am

Anyone observing Saturn tonight (full moon...nothing else to see...) ? Even though it was pretty close to the moon and I was observing in the middle of Toa Payoh Central, I managed to catch what I thought to be about 6 of Saturn's moons this evening (trying to confirm with software now). They were relatively bright and easily observed at ~ 200x. Amazing. Gone were the days where only Titan was visible everytime I observed Saturn.

4 of the brighter ones appeared roughly along the same line just above the Southern polar region. A fifth, fainter one was observed to be just below one of the four. A sixth suspect was observed to be somewhere below the planet's Northern polar region.

I just downloaded a software that plots the positions of Saturn's moons according to UT, and I'm trying to confirm which six I observed and if any of them just happened to be a nearby star.

Anyone has any idea how many hours I'm supposed to add to Singapore's time to get the UT equivalent ? Thanks.

Post by **weixing** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:00 am

Hi,
Last time call GMT, now call UT. So basically is the same.

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:06 am

Ok, Thanks for confirming.

So with the software, I can confirm now that 5 of them are indeed Saturn's moons. Titan @ mag 8.4, Rhea @ mag 9.8, Enceladus @ mag 11.8, Tethys @ mag 10.3 and Dione @ mag 10.2. The sixth one observed near the Northern polar region just happened to be a nearby star :roll: .

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:46 pm

If I'm not mistaken UT is the same as GMT. So in order to get local (Singapore) time, you'll need to add 8 hours.

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Saturn's moons observed tonight

Saturn's moons observed tonight

UT and GMT and Local time