Saturn September 9th AV

[Quark]

Imaged Saturn September 9th in fair to good seeing targeting a transit of AV.
All data has been uploaded to PVOL with links here to the animations.

Detail resolved in these data.
A pair of storms on the edge of the North Polar collar consisting of a bright spot at approx Lat+64.7 L3 76.5 and a v-close dark spot at approx Lat+63.5 L3 83.9 best resolved in IR data with the bright spot also resolved in the R data.
AV is resolved at approx Lat+41.7 L3 94.5 resolved in IR data.
A v-bright EZ spot feature is resolved at approx Lat 0.0 L1 330 resolved in IR data.
A compact bright spot on the edge of the ring shadow at approx Lat-18.4 L1 330.1 resolved in IR and R data.
A dark spot mid SEB approx Lat-31.8 L3 97.6 resolved in IR data.
A bright spot impinging up into the SEB at approx Lat-28.9 L3 80 resolved in R data.
A dark spot extending down from the SEB at approx Lat-30.4 L3 96.3 resolved in R data.
A large bright oval at approx Lat-50 L3 47.4 resolved in R data.

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-09-09_14-12_685nmIR_tba.gif

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-09-09_13-58_polar_tba.gif

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-09-09_14-06_r_tba.gif

Regards
Trevor

[RobF]

Beautiful work Trevor - and all the more important now too I guess that there's no Cassini out there any more......