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Faiz Ahmad
Virginia, USA
07/24/2019
11:58 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron Edge HD 8, Focus reducer lens .07X, ZWO ASI 224 Color CMOS with Orion StarSeeker IV GoTo Altazimuth Mount & Tripod. Used SharpCap 3.2 to record 1500 frames in .AVI file format.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked 2500 frames in AutoStakkert, RegiStax 6 to adjust wavelet and GIMP to added color and saturation and brightness.

Image Details:

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but with its larger volume Saturn is over 95 times more massive.