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Saturn Near Opposition - 4/27/2013 ~ 04:35 CDT, artao

Saturn Near Opposition - 4/27/2013 ~ 04:35 CDT

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Saturn the night before opposition. For those interested, here is the raw capture with commentary >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VO-w_zN3c

I used my late 1970s model 152mm f/6 Edmunds Scientific Newtonian reflector on the original GEM, which was NOT designed for astrophotography. Very sloppy tracking, but it works well enough.

Image is approx. 300x magnification. Image size is doubled in Registax 6 using the drizzle function.

Seeing was mediocre at best. The atmosphere was a bit hazy so the sky was not very transparent - limiting mag. maybe 4.5 or so. Also the atmosphere was rather unstable to boot.

My most successful Saturn to date however.

Image is perhaps a bit overprocessed, but I'm happy with it.

This was my 2nd run thru in Registax after an initial run with mostly default settings, just for an idea of what I had.

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Saturn Near Opposition - 4/27/2013 ~ 04:35 CDT, artao