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Saturn Image 2006/04/26(UT)

David Arditti
D.Arditti

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These might be my last Saturn images this apparition, as it slides  into the twilight.
Seeing tonight was good but transparency very low, hence the blue  image is very faint.
Things I note are:
The faintness of the rings now so far from opposition
The particular faintness of the p ansa in the B: is this an example  of the bicolour phenomenon?
The brightness of the STrZ in B and G at the p limb particularly, 
but  also at the f limb: is this blueness for the same reason as the N of  the planet is blue (ie. cold) c.f. 
Uranus and Neptune's blue or green  colouration?

 

 
[David Arditti: Edgware Middlesex HA8 5LW: United Kingdom]

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