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Originally Posted by tailwag
I was out looking at Saturn on the same night through binoculars, and after quite a lot of digital reproduction, I believe the image below is very close to what I saw. The point to doing this is to try and show the relative difference between images, from a baseline viewpoint. True my memory can never truly be used but in a graphical sense the two images side by side show a marked difference (as you would expect). I hope you don't mind me borrowing your image for this demonstration.
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Ron, a yellow "star" with "ears"! That's what I first saw. I'm now more clearly seeing the rings separated from the planet. The other night, a couple of experienced guys looking through my 30x100s said the rings are clearly seen. I think, as we move on in our orbit, Saturn's shadow starts to fall across the rings on one side and that will aid our ability to resolve the rings at 20x and 30x. Sometime in last May, observing around 7-8pm should be the maximum shadow, I believe.