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Old 28-01-2012, 08:54 PM
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Mars and Saturn in better seeing Jan27UT

Hi. seeing was really bad the evening before, but had smoothed out quite well by 3am and improved as the morning progressed - transparency was pretty ordinary, but fairly consistent.
Mars was fairly well resolved, showing clouds all over the place (and possibly a dust storm?) and the dreaded bright edge ringing was not a major problem.
Saturn was quite detailed and I could even occasionally see much of Cassini in the blue band feed!! Have also included a heavily enhanced and scaled version of Saturn to show that, in addition to the bluish ribbon, there looks to be some storm residue structure in the darker zone nearer the equator.
Thanks for looking. Regards Ray
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