No, I can't say I have seen spokes in Saturn's rings. I have been seeing something in these stellar seeing conditions we have been having. What I see is primarily at the ansae and looks sometimes like the crepe ring has bled up on the B ring. Missouri has had an almost unprecedented run of clear steady early mornings that has seen me out 15 of the last 17 mornings for the 2 or 3 hours before dawn. On the best days I have been able to use 405X on Saturn with 7 inches of aperture without losing image quality. I wish I had been using larger aperture on some of these mornings.
I have seen the Voyager pictures of spokes. I would be interested in hearing from those who have seen them about what they saw, how they compared to the voyager pics, what aperture and magnification was needed to see them, etc. I know Kevin Barker has seen them and I am sure others have as well. Keep the stable air coming. In these early am hours I have been splitting 0.8 and 0.9 arc second doubles nicely. I need to find some .5 to .7 doubles that are well placed at that hour. Suggestions?
Kim Colter
I have seen the Voyager pictures of spokes. I would be interested in hearing from those who have seen them about what they saw, how they compared to the voyager pics, what aperture and magnification was needed to see them, etc. I know Kevin Barker has seen them and I am sure others have as well. Keep the stable air coming. In these early am hours I have been splitting 0.8 and 0.9 arc second doubles nicely. I need to find some .5 to .7 doubles that are well placed at that hour. Suggestions?
Kim Colter