September 4, 2025.  A transit of the shadow of Saturn's largest moon Titan was predicted to begin at 5:19 UT (1:20 EDT) on September 4.  I opened up observatory #3 and set up the 7.25" Schupmann with a 1.5x Barlow lens giving a focal ratio of f/21 and the ASI183MC CMOS video camera and pointed the telescope at Saturn.  After centering the planet in the field I selected a 776x464 pixel region of interest encompassing 91x54 arc seconds of the sky.  The camera was selected to take a 60 second video with a shutters speed of 55 milliseconds and a gain of 356. Videos were taken at 5:05, 5:10, and every 10 minutes up until 6:20 after which the haze became to heavy to continue imaging.  The videos were processed in Autostakkert, Registax and PIPP and a montage prepared in Photoshop Elements, shown below.

Titan can be seen above (north) and to the left (east) of the planet, and the shadow appears at the upper left limb of saturn and proceeds to the right (west).  Both transparency and seeing were quite variable over the course of the imaging session.  The image taken at 5:40 has the best resolution.  It is shown below.

All the images were combined using PIPP (Planetary Image Preprocesser) to create the animation shown below.

Saturn July 17, 2013
Saturn July 17, 2013
The CPC-1100EdgeHD
The CPC-1100EdgeHD

The C14 retired from           Jenny Jump

Jupiter, September 11, 2013
Jupiter, September 11, 2013
7.25" Schupmann Medial
7.25" Schupmann Medial
Jupiter September 9, 2013
Jupiter September 9, 2013
12.5" Newtonian
12.5" Newtonian

Mars Sept 8, 2020

Mars August 18, 2003
Mars August 18, 2003
Venus March 11, 2012
Venus March 11, 2012
Mercury July 30, 2013
Mercury July 30, 2013
The Sun August 14, 2010
The Sun August 14, 2010
The Moon May 17, 2005
The Moon May 17, 2005
Lunar Terminator Strip 3/12/11
Lunar Terminator Strip 3/12/11