| Acquisition Date |
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12/05/2004 |
| Camera |
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel |
| Camera Settings |
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Sum of 17 images of the ball, 27 images of the rings taken over 5 minutes. Data output in raw format. |
| Telescope |
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35cm F/8 Planetary Monorail (home made telescope) |
| Mount |
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Repaired and refurbished Meade research series GE |
| Adapter / Prime / Afocal / Other |
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Eyepiece projection- Major axis of ring plane 6mm on CMOS. |
| Processing Package / Processing Applied |
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FFT filtering to remove pattern noise and roll off frequencies. Image resampled from 1024x1024 to 400x400 for security purposes. Final LUT creation and color plane recombination performed in PhotoShop. |
| NOTES |
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Excellent seeing due to a thermal inversion. Skies didn't clear until sunset so there was little solar heating during the day. |
