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Good effort Mike, much better than any of my Saturn images. I was out last night trying to collimate my scope, seems it moved a bit since installing it on the pier and I have an Orion mirror diag now which has upset the collimation. Anyway after giving up with the collimation, I went and had a look at both Saturn and Jupiter. Even though it was a cool clear evening the seeing was pretty loosy.Under a barlow banding was just present but the image was dancing all over the place. Jupiter is looking much larger in the EP and getting very bright. In less than a month Jupiter will be at opposition and this should give you a great target to work toward. Even in a 12.4mm EP banding is visible to the NEB, SEB and polar belts.
The bottom line is that your imaging has come a long way, and for a dob you are getting better images that some scopes with tracking. Jupiter will no doubt present you with the next challenge, which I am sure you will grasp with both hands. Keep up the good work.
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