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Old 22-12-2004, 11:36 AM
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My fourth Saturn

Well as I said in teh Jupiter thread, once I saw the clouds covering Jupiter, I turned my attention to Saturn, as I knew I had about 10 minutes before the clouds would cover it as well.

Seeing was pretty good, Saturn was a little higher and a little more west than usual as it was later in the morning.. instead of having Saturn drift across the FOV from right to left, it was going diagonal from upper right to lower left.. made it a bit harder to align it each pass, but i'm getting better at it anyway.

Here's a stack of about 100 frames (out of around 400), processed in registax 3.

The colour is off - i'm not sure why, I may have had the saturation too high in the capture settings. Anyway it's a fairly crisp image this time, cassini division and cloud band visible.. Probably on par with the other recent image of Saturn I took last week.. one day i'll pull out a blinder



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