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.