Thread: Saturn, Jan 3
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Old 06-01-2009, 02:08 PM
bird (Anthony Wesley)
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Originally Posted by Quark View Post
Hi Bird,

As the rotation rate is so similar, to resolve storm structure within the atmosphere really requires similar treatment to Jupiter.


Regards
Trevor
Trevor, this is true only if you adjust the effective focal length to have Saturn appear at the same angular size as Jupiter. With "normal" settings you'll probably find that it's about half the angular size, and so the features move at about half the rate across the ccd.

regards, Bird
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