Saturn April 6th 2013

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn this morning in variable seeing, from slowly waving like a flag to quite nice conditions.

Planned this mornings session around imaging the dark spot at L3 +46 degrees based on the WinJUPOS drift chart I created from the 4 data sets I have with this feature, dating back to Jan 23rd. The projected L3 proved quite accurate and I captured the dark spot this morning along with the large scale EZ feature I captured back on March 12th, best seen in the R channel data from this morning.

Thanks for looking

Regards
Trevor

[Paul Haese]

Nice images Trev, looking at the last image it looks like you can see the entire hex with some of the next belt down being seen behind. Nice spot capture too.

[asimov]

Nice work Trevor. It seems to be easier this time around to capture ring details & features. I couldn't put this down to high alt. imaging because I've been imaging this target early; (35-45 degrees) lately. Must have something to do with the ring angle right now?

[U.K.Cowboy]

Great work again Trevor!

[Larryp]

Nice work, Trevor!

[Shiraz]

another beautiful dataset Trevor - really nice work. regards Ray

[John Hothersall]

Good spots on the disc well caught.

John.

[allan gould]

Beautiful and sharp images. You have inspired me to go out again tonight.
Allan

[Quark]

Thanks Paul, I really am hanging out for a ripper night to do justice to the very nice alt, but so long as I can resolve the features I am targeting I am reasonably happy.



Thanks Asi, early last year the rings opened to 15 degrees but then spent most of the year at about 12 to 13 degrees so the current very nice approx 19 degrees certainly presents the rings at a more favorable angle. It really is quite noticeable now in reasonable seeing to see the limb of the planet through the CD.



Thanks Stuart.



Thanks Laurie.



Thanks Ray, looking forward to a session of steady seeing.



Thanks John, I relied on the drift chart I had produced for that spot to frame my capture session.



Thanks Alan, Saturn is certainly well positioned and worth having a crack at.