Saturn
2024
29 Oct 2024 at 09:28 UT.
2023
19 Dec 2023 at 08:55 UT.
2022
23 August 2022 at 10:52 UT.
2021
12 September 2021 at 08:21 UT.
2020
2 September 2020 at 09:16 UT. |
3 September 2020 at 09:57 UT. |
Below, the planet and eight moons, 17 October 2020. Click on the image to toggle a key identifying the moons and showing a normally exposed image of the planet.
2019
The planet at opposition on 9 July 2019 at 11:26 UT. |
28 August 2019 at 08:01 UT. |
The lunar occultation of Saturn on 2 November 2019: below, four frames from a video recording of the onset of the occultation as the dark limb of the moon gradually covered the planet.
Below, two images of the planet emerging from behind the moon's bright limb.
Click here for a 1m-26s-second-duration movie of the the occultation.
Below: Saturn occulted by the dark limb of the moon, 12 August 2019. At its great distance from the sun, the planet is a considerably dimmer than the moon.
Click here for a 40-second-duration movie of the onset of the occultation.
2018
8 June 2018 |
22 June 2018 |
29 June 2018 |
6 July 2018 |
12 July 2018 at 09:57, 10:21, and 10:34 UT. Note a storm near the planet's north pole. Below a larger version of the image at 10:34 UT. |
2017
30 July 2017 |
2016
19 June 2016 |
2015
28 May 2015, about five days after opposition |
24 June 2015 |
30 July 2015 |
2014
31 March 2014 |
11 May 2014, at opposition. |
16 May 2014 |
19 May 2014 |
28 May 2014 |
14 June 2014 |
22 June 2014 |
Animation of the 31 March and 11 May 2014 images showing the surge in brightness of the ring system at opposition known as the Seeliger effect. |
2013
30 May 2013 |
1 July 2013 |
Animation of the changing apparent tilt of the planet from 2013 to 2016. |
Schmidt-Cassegrain 11-inch telescope working at about f/20; image stacks of multiple frames made with a monochrome camera through red, green and blue filters. |