Saturn, 19 August 2023
The rings we know from textbooks, captured from Earth.
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Buy in the shopAbout the object
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System. Its rings are made of countless particles of ice and rock; although they span hundreds of thousands of kilometres, they are remarkably thin. Light from Saturn takes more than an hour to reach Earth.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 19 August 2023
- Total exposure
- video, keeping only the sharpest frames
- Processing
- video capture → PIPP → AutoStakkert! (sharpest frames, drizzle) → RegiStax → Topaz Photo AI (from the file name)
Data from the original file’s metadata or from the author.