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A Gallery of Images of Saturn taken with Fresno State's Campus Observatory

Saturn, 2009 February 3, full-color wavelet-processed Registax stack of 1/30-s unfiltered Philips ToUcam exposures at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald.	Saturn, 2008 February 28, full-color wavelet-processed Registax stack of 140 (out of 1891) x 1/20-s unfiltered Philips ToUcam exposures at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald.	Saturn, 2006 December 4, full-color ToUcam LRGB image at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by Jeraldo Martinez.
Saturn before opposition, 2005 November 18, full-color unsharp-masked Registax stack of 174 (out of 2355) x 1/20-s unfiltered Philips ToUcam exposures at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald. Notice how the shadow of the planet falls on the right side of the rings.	Saturn at opposition, 2006 February 8, full-color unsharp-masked Registax stack of 203 (out of 6709) x 1/20-s unfiltered Philips ToUcam exposures at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald.	Saturn after opposition, 2006 April 6, full-color unsharp-masked Registax stack of 71 (out of 4218) x 1/20-s unfiltered Philips ToUcam exposures at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald. Notice how the shadow of the planet falls on the left side of the rings.

Saturn, 2003 October 25 at 11:00 UT, full-color ST-7XE LRGB image at f/20 (with a 2x Barlow lens) by F. Ringwald, processed by Aaron Hathaway.

Same as at right, but with the brightness scaling stretched by Aaron Hathaway, to bring out faint moons, including Enceladus (left, at magnitude V = 11.8), Tethys (bottom left, at V = 10.3), and Dione (bottom right, at V = 10.2).

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