Saturn's Transit of the Crab

by Bill Feiereisen

• 4:30 UT
• 1/5/03
• Sante Fe, New Mexico (backyard), skies about M5.5, (too lazy to head for Buckman Wells)
• 8" f/10 lx200 76x

The northern extension of the nebula is just barely visible behind Saturn's glare. Lumicon UHC and OIII didn't help. Still impressive to have seen it.

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