Saturn GWS AV October 8th 2023

[Quark]

Imaged Saturn October 8th targeting a transit of the GWS AV. This session covered 3 hr 15 min of Saturn rotation in good seeing however the first 90 min of data had cloud passing through which affected the transparency. In spite of the cloud passing through there is good depth of small scale detail resolved. All data has been uploaded to PVOL with links here to the animations.

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-10-08_11-00_685nmIR_tba.gif

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-10-08_11-27_r_tba.gif

http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvolimages/saturn/s2023-10-08_11-49_rgb_tba.gif

Detail resolved in these data.
An elongated bright spot on the edge of the North Polar collar at approx Lat+64.3 L3 81.4 resolved in IR data.
A bright spot on the edge of the North Polar collar at approx Lat+64.3 L3 98 resolved in RGB data.
A bright spot on the Southern edge of the NNTeB at approx Lat+45.5 L3 95.1 resolved in R and RGB data.
The GWS AV at approx Lat+42.2 L3 88 resolved in IR data.
An elongated bright feature at approx Lat+30.5 L3 105.5 resolved in R and RGB data.
A large bright spot in the NEBs at approx Lat+19.7 L3 99.5 resolved in IR, R and RGB data.
A large elongated bright spot at approx Lat-30.2 L3 52 resolved in R data.
A large bright spot at approx Lat-51.3 L3 49.1 resolved in IR and R data.

[Dave882]

Wonderful images Trevor. That elongated feature is particularly well resolved in your third image. Fantastic!