[AZ-Observing] Re: Very Good Seeing and Another Saturn Image

Superb image, Tom!

I noticed last night (up until 11:00 pm) that the sky was unusually steady (for 
Arizona, anyway). I was splitting double stars at 0.7" of arc and getting 
figure eights at 0.5".


Richard Harshaw
Cave Creek, AZ


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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Very Good Seeing and Another Saturn Image

I got up again at 4:00 to do a seeing check, hoping the result would be a 
return to bed.  But no, there was only a bit of image motion at 300x.  I came 
away with a much better image of Saturn than yesterday's.  Notice that Titan 
has moved to the east of the planet.

http://www.pbase.com/polakis/image/107625869

Still need to mess with the color balance, or are the edge-on rings really that 
red compared to the disk?

Tom
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