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Old 27-09-2008, 01:15 PM
tornado33
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Highest resolution image done on the Saturn nebula

Hi all
heres one for the long FL RC users to get
on Thursday night last I imaged the highest resolution image Ive ever done on the Saturn Nebula, in excellent seeing. Due to the high dynamic range, in order to get the faint "ansae" I used 2x5 mins and 3x30 second images to also show the very bright central detail.. Ive upsampled it roughly 2x as well. Taken with modded 350D and 10 inch f5.6 newtonian, off axis hand guided with Q guider

As a comparison, here it is taken with a scope of over 4 metres FL
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n7009.html
Scott
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