Hi,
Once again I've blessed with excellent seeing. This prompted me to bring out my 6" refractor and 9.6" Newtonian. Saturn held very sharp at 400x in the 6" and 455x in 9.6". I sketched with the 6" since it has motorized drives. Hand tracking the Dob while sketching would have been tough.
I had a second chance to try my new NPC filter and it worked well for Saturn's disk. The rings didn't do well with the filter at aperture/inch magnifications this high.
Of note during this observation is a brightening in the A ring, on the following side, which also broke the Encke Minima. there was also a little bit of darkening on the inner edge of the B ring also on the following side. These features showed in both of my scopes.
Thanks, Sol Robbins
Once again I've blessed with excellent seeing. This prompted me to bring out my 6" refractor and 9.6" Newtonian. Saturn held very sharp at 400x in the 6" and 455x in 9.6". I sketched with the 6" since it has motorized drives. Hand tracking the Dob while sketching would have been tough.
I had a second chance to try my new NPC filter and it worked well for Saturn's disk. The rings didn't do well with the filter at aperture/inch magnifications this high.
Of note during this observation is a brightening in the A ring, on the following side, which also broke the Encke Minima. there was also a little bit of darkening on the inner edge of the B ring also on the following side. These features showed in both of my scopes.
Thanks, Sol Robbins
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