Saturn July 2nd dark oval, in good seeing ?

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn July 2nd. This really was just an afterthought. I had to drive to Adelaide very early the next morning ( a 6 hour trip) and the seeing was predicted to be rather ordinary. As it turned out, the transparency was very good and the seeing was quite interesting. Always nice detail but with a high frequency oscillation, from time to time. It was hard to rate the seeing, I only stacked 40% of the data but that 40% was quite good.


I returned to Broken Hill today July 6th and have just finished processing.

Have captured the dark oval, it continues to drift at approx 3.4 degrees in L3 per Earth day. Have also captured some interesting features in the NEB which are best seen in my R channel animation. The polar hex is very well defined in my R & RGB polar projections, as is the dark oval.


Have attached 1 R, RGB & 742nm IR data sets along with 1 set of R, RGB & IR polar projections with R & RGB animations captured over a 1 hour session.

Thanks for looking.

Regards
Trevor

[h0ughy]

how nice are those - simply brilliant

[Solar]

Pretty special images Trevor.

[asimov]

Nice mate! 'SEEING IS KING!' Glad you were there to exploit it!

[Quark]

Thanks guy's, appreciate your comments. That the result was considerably better than I expected is probably more reason to capture data, regardless of the predictions.

It seems that this year more than any other I seem to have deleted a lot of data. Guess its always worth the effort as you never know how it really is unless you have a go, eventually conditions have to come good..... hopefully.

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Trev, I have forgotten what my C14 looks like. LOL. I really like your thorough portrayal of the data mate.

[Shiraz]

wow, that is good. regards Ray

[Larryp]

Nice work Trevor :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Thanks All,

Paul, it is a shame there has not really been a run of good weather this year where we could have all got together and you could have fired up the C14. Your last trip out here was most enjoyable and I keep reminding Bird that my back yard was the location where the first ever, direct observation and record on video of a impact on Jupiter was made, (given that the Shoemaker Levy 9 impacts happened behind the limb of Jupiter) by some bloke from Murrumbateman.

[FlashDrive]

Excellent indeed....

Flash.....

[Asso]

very nice pictures there Trevor. I'm not able to see Saturn through my telescope so seeing all the shots you guys take makes me feel like i'm there.

[Solar]

Why can't you see it through your scope. :confused2:

[Quark]

Thanks Col & Brett,

In retrospect, considering this data was captured only a few days prior to the new SED's being detected by Cassini RPWS, it is possible that the very bright elongated segment close by the dark oval could be associated with said outburst.