Saturn SED's storm, Rhea & shadow transit

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn in good seeing last night with the aim of capturing the SED's storm. Cassini has been tasked with imaging this storm on the day side of Saturn today providing the possibility of support by amateur imagers.

Have captured the storm at the CM at 10:48 UTC, this image was captured in a window of very good seeing and is my best effort for this apparition.

All of these images were processed quite heavily to reveal the storm and other cloud features.

As a bonus I also have Rhea and its shadow transit.
Have attached a set of RGB images plus an animation.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[coco1]

Very nice as usual.............Steve

[StephenM]

Nice work Trevor. The storm and shadow transit come up well!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Clayton]

Great work Trevor

[michaellxv]

Great work again Trevor :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Thanks Steve, had very good conditions for this session.



Thanks Stephen, pretty pleased with the coverage of the storm and how it came up in the animation.



Thanks Clayton, I was fortunate to get such cooperating from the weather for these, especially with Cassini lining up to image this storm the next day providing the opportunity for ground based support for the Cassini cameras.



Thanks Michaell, it's nice to create good images but it is very satisfying to create good images that are also of scientific value.

[Lester]

Top capture of the storm Trevor. The storm must be many Earth diameters in length= huge.

Thanks for the wonderful view.

[coco1]

I love your work. Steve

[Quark]

Thanks very much Steve, appreciate your comment.



Thanks Lester, yes it is considerably extended in Longitude yet is still reasonably bright. RPWS researchers think that there is a connection between the level of activity in the SED's related storm in the STrZ and the long lived cloud feature in the SEBZ. I imaged that feature April 27th.

The cloud feature in the SEBZ is moving faster than the storm in the STrZ and when it catches up with and passes the storm in the STrZ there has been an increase in the level of SED's activity recorded by the RPWS instrument onboard Cassini.