Saturn from March 12th in Miami

[Doodles23]

Here is a photo taken last night which may be of interest. Seeing was close to perfect in this drought plagued city. We got real lucky because the last 3 nights in Miami have been clear and good seeing, a real rarity in the semi-tropical state.

It appears there is not one storm but a system of storms. Photo taken with a DMK21AF04 at f/25 with a C11. 7 hrs after this photo was take Titan crossed the face of Saturn and cast a shadow that Lester got!

[Dennis]

An excellent image Dave - Titan looks impressive!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

That's a beautiful image, Dave. Lovely colours and sharpness.

[Lester]

Wow, Dave, I like your image a lot, the seeing conditions must have been very good.

Well processed and good luck for more.

[Omaroo]

Very nice Dave. :thumbsup:

[RB]

Excellent work Dave.

[Quark]

Top stuff Dave,

Nice detail and colours.
Defiantly some cloud structure in the EZn. There have been several long lived cloud structure in the EZn over the last few months. These are interesting features. It was thought that storm structures, that is with associated SED's (Saturn Electrostatic Discharge), that is lightning, could only form in the special regions at 35 Sth & 35 Nth. This was directly related to the wind speeds in the equatorial zone, which were thought to be to high for SED type storms to develop. At 35 Sth & Nth the wind speeds drop off just enough for storm structures to survive.

A very interesting point regarding this, was that the Voyager probes detected SED's emanating from the Equatorial zone. Voyager did not image physical evidence to support that though.

Since Cassini has been at Saturn I believe that it has not detected SED's from the EZ. That said these quite bright long lived cloud structures continue to appear in the EZn, most interesting.

Regards
Trevor