Big SATURN (6/2/06)... and great white spot?

[Robert_T]

Hi All, Seeing settled down after Mars last night to have a go at Saturn, 6, maybe 7 out of 10 at times. Enough to give the 4x powermate a go. Transparency wasn't great though so had to have gain up to nearly 70%. Also took some avi with the 2.5 powermate where I could wind gain back to ~30%.

The 4 x shot is at left, not bad all things considered- had to stack a heap of frames though to reduce the grain 2184 of 3600 frames (Astra Image LR devonvolution). The other two are from the same avi post-processed with Unsharp Mask and LR deconvolution respectively.

The most interesting thing is the light spot found on the globe in both shots. I'm assuming this is a storm - does anyone know if it's a long-lived feature or a flare up? :confuse3:

enjoy

[davidpretorius]

well done rob, a great nights work! maybe the seeing has to be that next step up to get that 4x cracking!

[asimov]

Hey man! Their lovely images!!:)

A storm!?...Hell, I had white spots in my last Saturn & I though they were noise or grain or something so I processed them out!?:scared:

PS...I won't be getting mars either tonight...absolutely rotten seeing conditions :confuse2: :sad: The war-god-gaulet-tossing-down-of to be continued! :wink2: :)

[beren]

:) Top stuff and nice capture with the storm :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Well done Robert, I haven't seen any aussie imagers capture the storm yet! Well done!

There's been a few images on CN and Astromart with it.. nothing but clouds here.

Excellent result.

[RB]

Very well done Robert.
I especially like the first one dude.

:thumbsup: :drink:

[Robert_T]

Thanks Guys



Whoohoo, so it's a real storm :) Great to see Saturn can throw up a few surprises too!

cheers,

[John K]

nice work Robert, it's amazing that we can observe this when you consider how far Saturn is, great images.

[ving]

good pic! only ever seen a couple of storm pics for saturn :)