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Old 09-02-2009, 11:11 AM
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Titan transit

Managed to capture the first 90 minutes of last night's transit.

The seeing wasn't good enough to take the 3x barlow with the C9.25, so I backed off and used the 2.5x Powermate.

The trade-off? Crisper images at the expense of image scale

Still...it was nice to capture the event.

The first image is pre ingress, taken through a red filter. The second is during transit through a green filter.

If you look close enough you can even see the gap between the planet and the rings.

Anyway....I'll work up some colour images soon, and perhaps a short animation.

Thanks for looking.
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