From: Jim Chung <jim_chung@sunshine.net>

Date: August 30, 2009 7:10:37 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] 6 years of saturn observation

Alan,

Unbelieveably beautiful!

Jim

Quoting Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>:

Hi all,

Earth will pass through the ring plane of Saturn on September 4th -

the occasion has motivated me to finish processing my saturn images

from this year and to update my working animation of Saturn

observations to include images from 2004-2009:

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/6_years_of_saturn.html

A still image showing the 7 pictures used to make the animation can be

found here.

The edge-on image is constructed in Photoshop from previous 2009

observations, since <alas> when the rings appear edge on, Saturn will

be separated from the sun by 11 degrees and will shine 5 degrees above

the horizon after sunset - good pictures will be very hard to take.

All images captured with my A-P 10" mak/cass from my backyard in

Buffalo, except for the 2004 image which was taken from Cedar Key, FL.

best regards,

Alan