[Averton (P and C)]

Last night there was an unexpected clear couple of hours after sunset. The predictions showed that it wasn't going to last much later than 9pm so we decided to image Saturn early even though it was much lower in the sky than desirable. The other issues were that the wind was quite strong and the almost full moon wasn't that far away. On the plus side, compared to Tuesday night it was much warmer and therefore we didn't need the dew heater. We had put the scope out at 6pm so it had a good chance to cool. We feel that it was a better image than on Tuesday night and it is most likely the closest we are going to get to an image at opposition as the weather for the next week is predicted to be very ordinary.

Details as per the image.