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Old 23-12-2005, 06:51 AM
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Planet Bandy - Saturn this morn 23-Dec-05

Hi All, left the C9.25 out overnight for some Saturning this morning. Seeing was good (not great, say 7 out of 10). Tranparency must have been particularly good though for while the planet outline was oscillating a bit with the seeing the detail in bands and rings was better than I'd seen on the lappy screen before. . The cassini division was clear but not a lot of other ring detail. The banding on the globe was particularly obvious.

This came up a treat in Registax even before wavelets applied and only required very little processing. I tried a soft-sharpen in Photopaint for the shot at left and a little LR deconvolution in Astra Image for the shot at right - both are otherwise the exact same file and stack. Used 2.5x powermate and No resampling.

Had to get this one in early as Christmas party starts in an hour or so - if I did it later might get all technicoloor and wierd

Enjoy!
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