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Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Daniel Johnson on May 21, 2003 11:43:49 UTC |
It is now possible to use amateur scopes to make photos of planets showing more detail than can be seen with the eye alone--dozens or hundreds of frames are averaged digitally, with web cameras or ordinary digital cameras being the devices used. However, I have seen the Red Spot many times. I have seen the shadow of Io as a crisp, round disk on the face of Jupiter, with the moons themselves just barely spherical (as opposed to point-like) on the very best nights (they are at the lower end of size for visible spherical shape with amateur scopes of 8 inches or larger). The Cassini division of Saturn's rings is easily visible, and at times a subtle band or two on the planet itself is there.
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