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Saturn 3/10/09

Started by fugardi, 03/10/2010 11:47AM
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Taken in 2/5 seeing/transparency at 50deg altitude just before transit. Maintaining good focus was brutal under these conditions. Best 800frames RGB stacked from 3'R, 3'G, 4'B. I'd say you need at least 3/5 seeing to get a decent Saturn.

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I've taken a lot that looked like that. Pray
for better seeing....
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Steve, that's still a good composite showing plenty of color and contrast. When I was observing Saturn Friday evening I noticed that the globe this apparition shows very little visible banding and what is there is quite washed out, and that was with seeing so good Titan's orange color and small disk could be observed. regards, Dan grin
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