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Old 30-04-2013, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Hzadbhat View Post
Dumb question time.....
Probably not, but can it be seen through a scope from earth?
And if so, what aperture, magnification etc?
Too many clouds here to check.
No such thing as a dumb question, to resolve anything remotely approaching this level of detail within the Vortex is not on from Earth. That said, if you look in the Solar System Imaging forum at my (Quark) most recent thread from April 26th, which was the best seeing I have had this year, the vortex can be seen within the polar hexagon as a dark circular region in my polar projection maps. Probably more prominent in my 742nm IR data.

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