Saturn cheer in late winter
It's easy to be a cheerleader for Saturn:
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Saturn live in a telescope eyepiece always impresses, no matter how many times you’ve seen it.
I’ve had folks who see Saturn for the first time sneak around to the end of my telescope thinking there must be some sort of viewer present there with a slide or videotape of Saturn’s image. They can’t believe the yellowish ball completely encircled by a large flat ring can be an actual object.
But that live image is real. Enough so that it’s hooked generations on amateur astronomy as a hobby. I’ve also heard from folks who say the ringed planet made them decide to bag the hobby, and this sometimes came after they had bought an expensive telescope. “After seeing Saturn, nothing else quite measured up,” they said.
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