From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: January 6, 2009 10:01:27 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Saturn of 2009


Nice work Jim. Saturn is a really dim subject with my 10" - 8 would be harder still. It is a beautiful sight to see the ring angle so lean.


thanks for posting your image!

Alan




On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:20 AM, jimchung2338 wrote:

Well I finally gave Saturn a try because who knows when the sky will
be perfect around here. It's still quite small and faint for my C8
and I had to up the exposure to 120 ms when shooting through the RGB
filters.

Still neat ring configuration.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/SaturnJan2009
copy.jpg

Jim