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Originally Posted by Quark
Mike, Ian is from the UK but I believe has been holidaying in Spain. With planetary imaging in particular, all other things being equal, the most critical aspect to success is the quality of the seeing, low alt and good seeing is preferable to high alt and rubbish seeing. Damain Peach, a year or so ago produced an amazing Saturn image at only 34 degrees alt. Of course, given good seeing the aperture does matter as it has a direct reationship to the frame rate that can be used. Bird posted a ripper Jupiter over on facebook yesterday with his latest 16". Also, regarding aperture, over the years I have seen many impressive results with the C-9.25 not sure but I think Damian cut his teeth in planetary imaging with a C-9.25 .
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Yes of course.
Damien seems to produce many of his miracles with closed tube SCT around a concrete pool from less than well known astronomical places
so do any amateurs image planetary from the great sub arc sec seeing pro sites like Mauna Kea, La Palma, Cerre Tollolo etc...?
Mike