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Old 15-10-2020, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis View Post
Yeah it's hard to know what's right, as you see so many different renditions.

The thing to take care with the nasa imagery is that their filters may have different bandpass to ours.

On top of that, our atmosphere creates a perception too...
Absolutely, fully agree there. The Cassini filters are similar to ours (you can read about them in the link below, Fig 20), Hubble's are not.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile...-At-Saturn.pdf

The atmosphere will also remove some of the blue from the planets, especially at lower elevations.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/7...ees-elevation/

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