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Taken @ 11:59pm MST on 02-Jun-2016 (0659UT on 03-Jun-2016).
Although you'd be hard pressed to see a difference from one night to the next, here is Saturn at Opposition 02-Jun-2016.
To see how Saturn's ring system has changed since 2004, see http://www.pbase.com/wjshaheen/saturn_ring_tilt
Best 30 of 300 frames taken with the Celestron NexImage5 planetary imaging camera, Celestron 1100 EdgeHD telescope, no barlow, fl = 1960mm. Image scale 0.23 arc-secs/pixel. Video processed in ImagesPlus6.5 with RGB color channels split, aligned and re-combined.
North is up and east is to the left (of course). :O)
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