Friday, January 13, 2006
First Saturn
(Click to enlarge image)It was a warm and balmy night, the boys and I swam under the stars until late, Orion arching over us, then I set up the scope. Of course, warm and balmy means, you guessed it, turblulence, in spades. The Moon looked like it was under running water. Then we got invaded by thin high cloud, in fact there is a lovely Moon bow around the Moon at this moment.
So my first Saturn shot is well, pretty awful. The shot is a 2 second AVI, 15 frames per secomd, processed in Registax with about 1/3 of the frames tossed out. Well, you can at least see rings, and m-a-y-b-e the shadow on the rings. Maybe the air will be more stable near opposition, but as this is the hottest time of the year, I doubt it.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:14 pm 
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