"Jan Owen" wrote in message
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Interesting, I always thought that Saturn's rings are all different
coloured like the NASA photos, I also remember reading a nice
explaination somwhere about different gases and different colour
reflections etc. Can someone point me to a real image taken from a real
backyard telescope.

http://www.rocketroberts.com/astro/scopeview.htm

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplan...ts/saturn.html

The first link will show you Saturn as seen in amateur telescopes. Under
ideal seeing, for brief glimpses you will see it better than this, but you
will see no more color than this...

The larger photo is beyond what you will see in amateur scopes, but notice
that there is no real "color" in the heavily saturated color sense, in
this image, either...
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Note also, below the large Saturn image at the top of the page in the second
link, there are a couple photos that show a LOT of (bright yellow) color in
the rings, but DO understand that these are not true colors you're seeing
here, and you will NOT see anything like that visually through a
telescope...

What you will see in an amateur scope is better represented in the first set
of representations...

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Jan Owen

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