Saturn snapshots

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian reflector telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 29/03/2011 time: 22.30
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture

        Saturn is the 6th planet from our Sun.Because the large mass and the gravity, Saturn has extreme conditions when compared to Earth.The interior is probably composed of an iron-based compounds, nickel, silicon and oxygen surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, a layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally, a gaseous outer layer.

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