So this is an obvious picture of the Planet Saturn. This was taken with my 8" Meade Telescope and is 25 images stacked on top of each other. Normally the method used is a webcam, alot of times it is one like you might have on your desktop computer. The webcam is attached to a Barlow lens which essentially doubles or sometimes triples the size of the image. While hooked up to the Telescope through the Barlow lens a video is taken. I have seen where some people have taken videos at 30 frames per second or so and put it into a program that extracted each individual frame and stacked them one on top of another. Doing so they have basically stacked 300 or more photos and the result is quite nice. Again, This was done with my Canon DSLR hooked up without a Barlow to my 8" Telescope and is only about 25-30 images stacked it was not taken as a video. I then processed it with a freeware program called GIMP. It is alot like Photoshop just free, I'm sure Photoshop gives you more things to play with but, it does the job for me for now.
   Now onto some science! Saturn is the 6th planet from our Star the Sun. It is also as most may know the second largest planet in our solar system.The planet not counting the rings is about 10 times bigger around than Earth. It is at it's closest 746 million miles away from Earth. It spins about it's axis in about 11 hours ( That's one day on Saturn ). It takes about 29 1/2 Earth Years to Orbit the Sun. Saturn is what we call a Gas Giant it's composition is primarily Hydrogen and Helium. The rings around the planet are just breathtaking. The rings were long thought to be a solid disk but, missions the Voyager flyby in 1980 sent back detailed images of the rings. They are composed of lots of small pieces of rock and ice. One of the rings is formed by one of Saturn's Moons, Enceladus. It is an Icy moon that spews Ice out of Volcanoes. Not that indifferent from the volcanoes we know about other than instead of molten rock it is Ice that it spews out in fact shoots out into space. Saturn is currently still being studied by the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft. Saturn has over 60 moons to it, and is the farthest planet that is easily visible with the naked eye.