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Saturn Image 2013/02/10(UT)
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Edwin Pottillius
K.Ozaki,Edwin.P

Kimikazu Ozaki(440mm Rfd)
風が強くて鏡筒が揺れていまして、Seeingも悪く
雲が西天より広がってきて、数十分しか観測でき
ませんでした。

[Ki.Ozaki,Sobue Inazawa Aichi JAPAN]
≪愛知県稲沢市祖父江町  尾崎公一≫

Edwin Pottillius(305mm Newtonian)
Despite the very low altitude of Saturn in the northern hemisphere, I still managed a few good shots of the planet.
An RGB image was not possible because of bad transparancy and simply lack of light. The green and blue channels are totally useless. Not mention windy condition and lot's of turbulence made it very challenging to keep the planet in the FoV.
So only a red channel image was processed.

I enlarged the NP region and enhanced the contrast a little to make the hexagon more obvious. Although not specttacular it can clearly be seen. I also included a projection map.

[Edwin Pottillius:Roeselare,Belgium:Kingdom of Belgium]

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