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Old 20-03-2014, 09:09 PM
bratislav (Bratislav)
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Yet another Mars from Melbourne ... (morning 20th)

It must be something in the water

Best seeing this opposition so far; in fact seeing got even better later but Mars was getting behind the tree for me, so for steadiest seeing I imaged Saturn

At least I managed to bag the Encke visually. At 680x it was getting rather dim in C11, but at fleeting moments the seeing was exceptional and I just managed to see the impossibly thin line at both ansae of the ring.
This is now the smallest aperture I've seen it with. Considering how compromised C11 really is, I now tend to believe that top flight 10" Newtonian with small secondary or an 8" APO is about the smallest aperture to show the Encke gap.
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