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To: dragnet2

Nice! I went up to the local observatory about twenty-some years ago, and got to view Saturn through a Celestron C-11 (or maybe it was a C-13, I don’t recall and don’t want to try to look it up). It was obviously ringed, but it was pretty small to the eye. :’)


21 posted on 02/06/2009 10:53:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

The image above was enlarged. However through the eyepiece the planet is much clearer, in focus, with much better surface or atmospheric and ring detail visible, as opposed to what the camera captured in that image.


22 posted on 02/06/2009 2:53:23 PM PST by dragnet2
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