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Old 11-01-2006, 12:08 PM
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this is why i do not think i have captured it:

quote Iceman in relation to Dennis sharp capture

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...achmentid=8129

"The encke division is a very small feature, it hasn't been captured in Dennis's image (as fine as it is).

The image scale needs to be much larger to capture such a small feature. What most people see in amateur images is what has been called "the ghost of encke", which is really a processing artifact from sharpening.

There's a very fine article on it here:

http://www.astro-imaging.de/astro/ghost_of_encke.html"
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