Beautiful photos.
I was just telling someone the other day that one of the coolest things was seeing Saturn’s rings “in person” through a small telescope. The local astronomy club came to the grade school one night for all the kids.
It really was something to see them for real, rather than from a photograph.
From the web:
In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei turned a telescope to the sky, Galileo became the first person to observe Saturn’s rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature.
In 1655, Christiaan Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn.
Thanks. I remember seeing Saturn’s rings the first time with a kids’ reflector telescope when I was in grade school. It wasn’t much of a scope but you could still see Saturn’s rings and I think about 3 of Jupiter’s moons. One of these days I’d like to get a big old honking Dobsonian telescope.