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Saturn
 
Camera: Philips ESP-80 Digital
Exposure: Fully Automatic - 3x Zoom
(1 Sec @ f/4.7)
Eyepiece Projection.
 
Telescope: 8" f/8.25 Newtonian
Eyepiece: 17mm Plossl + 2x Barlow
Mag: 197 x
 
Mount: Dobsonian Mount
 
Tracking: Equatorial Platform
 
The Telescope, Mount and Platform are all homebuilt. The camera was set to 640 x 480 x 16.7 Million colours and the image at right was cropped from that picture without zooming in.

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