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It's been bloody cold last few weeks, but that suits me fine as it gets rid of the mozzies problem.
Last night, I saw saturn for the first time. Almost blew both pairs of socks off! Flabergasted, amazeballs, jaw dropping, stunning! **** amazing!
I saw _the_ ring ( 8" dob ) couldn't see any more than that on 25mm, 10mm or 4mm.
But it was clear as day, one planet and one thick ring.
Tonight, I showed it to the kids, but sadly quite a bit of atmospheric shimmering meant that the ring wasn't really clear and kinda blurred into the planet, but still absolutely amazing...
Couldn't see pluto, skysafari said it's mag 14.4, at one point, I could almost pretend I saw a faint outline of something... but naaaa, flicked back to saturn... WOW! So lonely, just one bright planet in the middle of nowhere, doing it's own thing, long before I was here and long after I'm gone.
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