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Thanks guys much appreciated!
Anth- You're very right about the conditions! Last night I had a brief visual session and had a period of maybe 10min of phenomenal seeing - proper contrast and colour in Saturn's bands, beautiful green, brown, magenta - like i was looking at a processed image. It didn't last long and even though I got the camera out hoping for a return of the stability, it was just mush and I gave up and went to bed!
Leo - I still remember the first telescope I owned was a crappy little 90mm Celestron refractor on a mount that didn't work so the only way to track the movement was by moving the tripod legs - I could see the rings pretty clearly but if the conditions were poor it was a fuzzy blob. I spent hours and hours with that little scope!
Thanks Jeff - Yes I was happy with the colour and contrast in the bands but did use some LightRoom to add saturation a little. Now we are looking almost edge-on the bands seem to look quite different to oother years - more subtle in colour and difficult to see good contrast unless the seeing is very good. Not sure why that is...
Thanks Ross I'm glad you liked the images. Appreciate your comments!
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