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    I took a picture of Saturn as it set behind a mountain

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    1. danborja on

      Hi all,

      This is an image I took last Saturday showing Saturn and two of its Moons (Titan and Rhea) setting behind the tree line of a mountain called Cerro de la Mitras located in Monterrey, Mexico. The distance to the trees was about 3.5km which is why I was able to focus them at the same time as Saturn.

      This was taken with a Celestron Nexstar 6SE, a .63 focal reducer and a ZWO ASI533MC camera.

      Here’s a [video ](https://i.imgur.com/a10jQL8.mp4)of the scene and here’s the [uncropped version](https://i.imgur.com/yQNPCrY.jpeg) of the image.

      You can find more of my astrophotography [here](http://www.instagram.com/danborjaa).

    2. SomePunkDuck on

      Even with your explanation my mind struggles to comprehend this image and I think, nah OP took a pic of the moon and needs to clean their camera lense.

      Awesome shot!

    4. Zealousideal_Hat_330 on

      Fun fact: Saturn has two moons that swap orbit every four years… to stay minty fresh 😎

    6. nmarnson on

      I’m mindblown. Are there certain times every year where Saturn is so clearly visible like this? Is it always this close to see with just binoculars?

    11. MutantHippie on

      I was so confused for a moment. Such a beautiful shot.

      Hope you don’t mind if use this for my phone wallpaper :)?

    12. StephinatelyNot on

      Yeah, you have a beautiful camera set up. My brother has actually been looking into getting the 6SE. This post certainly isn’t changing any minds, and I’ve already sent it over to him. This is really good work.

    13. thepizzamightier on

      Post this is r/confusingperspective! Reading the comments I can definitely make sense of it, but it’s wild how it looks like you could have seen Saturn like this with the naked eye because of how the trees appear in the shot

    14. Starship-1 on

      Beautiful! I live not so far from Mexico and some days ago I was playing with an app that tells which planets or stars are above you and I was staring at Saturn right in front of my house! It looked really huge compared to other stars obviously:) Wonfeful photo! I’ll check more of your works 🙂