Saturn occultation - images

Hi Robin,

Had the clouds kept off for the Cassini event, I still couldn't have
captured it due to the terrible boiling as you describe. The seeing at
egress with the extra altitude was totally different.

Cheers
Ian.

"Robin Leadbeater" wrote in message
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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I really hope you got something Robin, the Cassini reappearance would
be the icing on the cake wouldn't it!

Well I have posted an animated gif covering the period when the star was
supposed to be in the gap, but only for completeness as they are truly
terrible quality and don't really show anything, despite processing them
within an inch of their lives!

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/...2_image_77.htm

On reflection, imaging in IR was probably not a good idea as the rings
show
up bright and the star, being bluer than the sun would have been fainter.
It
did go some way towards steadying the boiling seeing though.

Robin

Avec 16 m de focale et 1m d'ouverture, effectivement
ça donnait pas trop mal ) : un petit avi de
l'émersion par J.Lecacheux, E.Frappa, F.Colas, P.Laques
au 1m du pic :

http://www.euraster.net/results/2006...060125_Saturn_...



-- francois meyer
http://dulle.free.fr/alidade/galerie.php?maxim=12

Here is an AVI stream from a french group at the Pic du Midi. Better,
larger instruments and better seeing. File is 6.95Mb et cover the star
reappearance at the South polar regions.

Pierre MK-UK