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Old 17-09-2007, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie View Post
I went mad one night during a moment of exceptional seeing and double barlowed my 4mm ep and pointed the scope at Saturn. Those rings at 1250x are pretty special.
Davo Pretorius and I did the same thing at Camp once!!! 2 Barlows really brings Saturns rings up BIG!!!!

I can't say it was a crystal clear view, but it suprised us that we could see the rings at all
We were looking at Saturn when it was only about 5 degrees above the horizon across a dam!!!
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