"laura halliday" wrote in message
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"tulika" wrote:

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.

All well and good, but what do *you* see? You are the
observer, and what you see is what matters. There is no
right or wrong, either. We're all different.

In my backyard scopes the rings are white and the globe
of the planet is shades of yellow, with cloud bands. The better
the seeing, the more pronounced the Cassini Division is.

At the moment there are so many stars in the vicinity it's
difficult to tell which are stars and which are moons.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
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Well said.

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