"Dennis Woos" wrote in message
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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...

Our newts do considerably better than these images in good, but not
exceptional, seeing. We are disappointed if the Cassini Division is not
sharply defined.

Dennis

I understand.

Living in Arizona, I have much better seeing than most, more frequently than
the majority... I can typically see more detail than represented here in
even my 94 mm APO, almost any time... But lots of others, with more
aperture, in their local seeing conditions cannot...

Certainly the images shown represent a worst case scenario for me, even with
my SMALLEST scope, most of the time...

But the REAL point wasn't about whether YOU (or I) can see Cassini crisply;
it was whether the OP can see all sorts of COLORS in the rings. And, simply
put, the answer is, one can't... There certainly IS detail in the rings,
but color ain't IT...

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