Saturn RGB Jupiter RGB & IR+animation GRS oval BA June 28th 2010

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged the faded remnant of the SED's related storm on Saturn very early last night. Most of my data was effected by cloud passing through to various degrees although I am quite pleased with my images. I have attached one of my RGB's, it is processed rather heavily to better resolve the storm remnant which is quite extended in longitude and rather faint.

Hit the deck at 3am CST this morning for Jupiter, the GFS charts showed that the jetstream would be effecting me but when I had an initial look outside and saw that there was no cloud at all ( an unusual occurrence of late) I got right in to Jupiter. Imaged in RGB and IR 807nm. Have posted a couple of very nice IR images that show a most interesting collection of white spots just to the west of oval BA and an RGB that also shows this structure. The jetstream kept the seeing pretty ordinary but there were brief periods where it would steady and be reasonable for a while.

Also posted an animation of 4 IR images.

By the way, it was 2.4 C at 3:30am CST in my dome, tropical when compared to Birds -4 C.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[Clayton]

Nice lot Trevor

[michaellxv]

They look great Trevor.

[bird]

Good images there Trev, gotta love Oval BA.

cheers, Bird

[Lester]

Wonderful views again Trevor, thanks.

[Paul Haese]

Nice Trevor. Waiting patiently here.

[Quark]

Thanks Clayton



Thanks Michaell



Thanks Bird, it would be great to image this region in good seeing but even so there is so much detail visible, even in ordinary seeing. This morning John Rogers pointed out that there had been major changes since Brian Coombes imaged the oval BA region 10 hrs earlier on the previous rotation.
To image such a dynamic feature that is still evolving from the merger / collision, is really exciting. I see that it will be well positioned July 1st 17:40 UTC and tomorrow morning it will be visible but very close to sunrise. Might have to have go, Emil has been producing stunning work in daylight.

[Quark]

Thanks Paul, not sure if you have been following the work that Emil has been doing in the daylight with Jupiter, been pretty impressive. Tomorrow morning the GRS will be at the CM at about 6:18 am CST. When Bird was up here we were still capturing good data at that time, so it may be possible to get the oval BA region. It is very dynamic and evolving so quickly, might be worth a try in the morning.

Regards
Trevor

[Paul Haese]

That's if the dang clouds ever leave.