Saturn, 10th April 2013

[bird]

Hi all, some reasonable seeing this morning for a while, coinciding with a view of the dark vortex in the northern hemisphere.

Here are a couple of RGB images and a 2-frame animation.

ps, as has been noted elsewhere, Saturn is a very difficult target to get both pristine rings and also enhanced detail on the globe. I've been struggling with this for years, and still don't have a sure-fire way to get them both right at the same time... the rings are artifact-magnets, any problem in seeing will cause double edges or ghost images that are very obvious and pretty much impossible to remove after the fact.

cheers, Bird

[allan gould]

Great capture of the hexagon storm and also the small dark spots moving in your animation. Thanks for posting.
Allan

[strongmanmike]

Superb Antonio :thumbsup:

I was out early this morning myself, just down the road from you too, wasn't it a glorious morning :thumbsup:

Mike

[Quark]

Lovely images there Bird, you certainly have your teeth into it now.

Regards
Trevor

[bird]

Thanks Mike & Trev - where were you set up Mike?

It was a great morning, unlike this one...

[U.K.Cowboy]

Great cloud detail coming through on that animation! :thumbsup:

[Shiraz]

excellent images - animation shows some quite distinct features. regards ray

[pete123]

The rotating hexagon in the animation looks amazing.

[Paul Haese]

Nice Anthony. I am sure I can see some scalloping in the lighter belt where the black spot is present. Nice resolution.

[Matt Wastell]

We re very lucky to have your images here - lovely stuff!