Object Name: Saturn
Object Type: Planet
Location: Maastricht – Netherlands
Date: April 23th, 2013 – 22.30h UTC & May 5th, 2013 21.30h
Media: Graphite pencil 5B on white paper
Seeing: Bad
Equipment: 12″/F5 Dobson – Nagler 3-6mm Zoom – 300x
I made this sketch of Saturn from my backyard on April 23th, but left it lying around far too long to finish drawing it from memory. So tonight I took the opportunity to do some more observation and complete the sketch. Seeing was bad as Saturn hovered low above Maastricht city. The moon probably is Tethys.
Volker,
Nice sketch of Saturn and Tethys.
Frank 🙂
Wow, very nice.
It seems you saw the Cassini Division all around.
Thanks, with spare moments the Cassini division appeared to go all around. Also there were sometimes subtle hints of the C-ring. There was no sign of the Encke division. Saturn was very near opposition with a huge ring tilt, but unfortunately low in the sky.