From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: March 27, 2010 9:56:09 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Planetary Imaging from Toronto


Excellent Jim! I was out last night too and I agree - the best seeing I've enjoyed for saturn in a couple of years. The view through the eyepiece was a stunner - I had a hard time tearing myself away to take pictures. I can't remember when I last had such a contrasty view of the cloud belts visually. Mars and the moon looked great too, I arrived on the scene too late for these so spent an hour or so capturing RGB files of saturn. Tomorrow looks like a good processing day. I'm under the black cloth in the backyard as I write this trying to image two nice active regions through the high clouds.


cheers,

Alan


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On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:10 AM, jimchung2338 wrote:

Last night we experienced probably the best seeing conditions this year, so far, in the Toronto region.

I managed to image Saturn:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/SaturnMarch2615fps.jpg

and also my last gasp attempt at a shrinking Mars:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/MarsMarch26.jpg

I'm hoping Alan was out last night as well!

Jim