For stargazers like myself who aren't that interested in starting an observing session at two in the morning, Saturn came back into range in around early March. For pre-midnight observing it was still lurking in the haze near the horizon and, for my location, in the direction of Birmingham city centre but Saturn is Saturn and it was my first chance to see it through the new 'scope.
It's just not possible to tire of seeing those rings and I was at the eyepiece for most of session - it's not the same looking at a laptop screen! I recorded a couple of decent videos, the best of which produced this:
The rings are still quite narrow but they should open out nicely throughout the year. And I'll have to try and make the most of it - after more than a decade in the northern sky Saturn is now most definitely heading south which will soon mean about 13 years of less favourable viewing.
