"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Last night, I took the scope out again and tried to get a few quick images of Saturn. My focus was really soft, but this was what I came up with after processing the video with Registax. It’s actually pretty comparable to the level of detail that I could see through the Meade ETX 90 under the conditions we had, which wasn’t too bad really.
I’ll try to type up a longer post about this later.
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