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Prabhakaran (Prabhu), Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, 21 November 2021

Prabhu says: “At the time of this capture, Saturn was only 40° above the horizon.

Generally, when the planets are low in the sky the atmospheric seeing makes it difficult, but if the seeing is excellent then by using an ADC (atmospheric dispersion corrector) one can capture a lot of the

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