Saturn + bright storm, Dec 10

[bird]

Hi all, my first Saturn image for this season, and I was lucky to catch
the new storm. I've attached images in visible (RGB) , IR (742nm+) and
CH4 (890nm). The seeing was poor for all these images, and Saturn was
quite low in the sky, but the storm is so bright that it's easily
visible. It was clear even in the live video that the storm was brighter
than both the planet and rings. Surely this must be one of the brightest
and largest storms in the last few seasons?

Interestingly the CH4 (methane) image doesn't show the storm at all. I'm
not sure if this is simply because CH4 is not useful on Saturn (maybe
these storms are too low in the atmosphere to get any return?).

The IR image shows a hint of structure in the outline of the storm,
there seems to be an extension developing to the southeast.

North is up in all these images.

cheers, Bird

[Lester]

That storm is very bright, thanks for the views Anthony. All the best.

[Clayton]

Interesting shots
Thanks Anthony

[RB]

Wow check out how bright that storm is.
Excellent Anthony, thx for sharing.

[Troy]

Saturn’s colour this year look a little different from last year. I like the colour and good pictures Anthony J.

[DavidU]

That's a very bright storm !
Great image Anthony.

[hotspur]

Corker images!well done!

Great to see the rings tilting back ,so we can see them better.

ooooh -that storm!must be massive!,glad we don't get them that big on earth!

Thanks for sharing.

[Ric]

Brilliant capture of that storm Bird.

Top stuff.

[anthony.tony]

Nice shots-I don't see any more of Mike salways planetary Images what happened.--Tony

[John Hothersall]

Great to see Saturn with rings and more showing.

John.

[michaellxv]

That must be a monster storm.

[DarkRevenge]

I wouldn't like to be there!
Great images as always, Anthony. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Luis.

[samilag]

Anthony great images, spectacular, the seeing was poor but better the in italy - po valley where jet streams are always > 35-40 m/s in this winter time period, terrible!!

Best Regards
samilag

San Salvatore Monferrato Italy

[Garyh]

Boy that`s a bright one alright! good capture Anthony!

[bird]

Thanks guys, the storm will be visible again from eastern australia on Wednesday morning - at 4.51am, just into morning twilight. Should still look spectacular I hope, and should also be easily visible through an eyepiece.

cheers, Bird

[Kal]

That's a ripper of a storm, don't think I can recall seeing one so large and visable!

[astroron]

Nice bright storm there Anthony:thumbsup:

reminds me of when I brought my 8" back from the states in 1990,:)
The first major thing observed was the big Ammonia Storm that finished up encircling the planet:eyepop:
Did you observe it :question:
That was a great start to some memorable events observed through this now venerable SCT
Cheers

[javier alves]

guauuuu. men , excelente captura.
saludos from argentina

[bird]

Ron, I missed that one... in 1990 I wasn't observing very often, sigh.

cheers, Bird

[SkyViking]

That storm is amazingly bright, and the rings have opened quite a lot already, fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

[Quark]

Super work Bird, looks brighter than the record breaking storm that started in Dec 2007, reckon the increased sensitivity of the Flea will help with this as the RPWS activity varies. Pretty interesting that it doesn't show up in Methane, considering how well CH4 shows up the active regions with Jup.

Regards
Trevor