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Old 24-02-2012, 05:06 PM
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Thumbs up Mars & Saturn Feb 23rd UT in good to very good seeing

Hi All,
Imaged Mars & Saturn this morning in good to very good seeing. Mars was pretty stable in the live feed and I captured 3 RGB & 807nm data sets over a 60 minute period. By then Saturn had risen to just over 50 degrees, Saturn looked extremely impressive in the live feed in all channels. I have rated the seeing 7 to 8/10 for the whole night over about 3 ½ hrs. For Mars the seeing spent more time around 7 but for Saturn there was more data closer to 8.
Have attached 1 RGB & 807nm IR data set for Mars along with an RGB animation of the 3 RGB data sets.
For Saturn it was hard to pick the best data set so have attached 2 RGB’s at the native scale along with a 130% resampled version and also a very hi res animation covering just under 2 hrs of Saturn rotation. Besides the storm remnant there are other cloud features that show up in the animation.
Have been up since 1am this morning, been processing all day, have a community observing night tonight that I had previously arranged which will probably go to midnight, then it will be time to capture Mars & Saturn again as the condition should be good again tonight.
Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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