Chris Newsome took this picture of Saturn next to the Beehive Cluster (M44) at 23:45 UT on the 25th January 2006, two days
before the planet reached opposition. Saturn is the bright object to the lower right of the cluster in the 4 o'clock position. The image also
captures the star BY Cancri about 5 hours after it had undergone an occultation by Saturn, visible from the UK, at around 19:00hrs on the 25th
January 2006. Three of Saturn's moons are also visible very close to the planet, and these, BY Cancri and another field star are identified on the magnified
insert at lower left. Chris used a Canon EOS300D camera and a Skywatcher 80T refractor.
He took four 60 second frames at 1600ASA and combined them in Maxim DL. These were processed in Photoshop CS2 and using various dodging
techniques, Chris processed the area around Saturn to reveal the moons. Further processing used RGB Levels, curves and GradientXTerminator.
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