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To: Red Badger

Most of the time Jupiter’s belts appear in grayscale through a typical backyard telescope. One year in January I was observing with a Celestron C-9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope in my backyard in Soldotna, AK just before a big storm was coming in from the Gulf of Alaska. It is said that the best “seeing” condition are just before big storms arrive. That night I saw the colors of all of Jupiter’s rings and it was absolutely beautiful. That image is forever seared into my memory.


16 posted on 08/23/2019 7:53:11 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: 43north
That image is forever seared into my memory.

Good thing you weren't in Cambodia................

17 posted on 08/23/2019 7:54:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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