Saturn April 14th

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn last night and have good coverage of the new spot. This data is better than the data from April 12th, although this was at much lower alt and most of it was captured through varying amounts of high alt Cirrus. The cloud has somewhat softened the detail but even the new spot is better resolved than in my data from April 10th & 12th.

Have attached a couple of RGB & 807nm IR data sets. The first was captured at an alt of only 37 degrees and in spite of the cloud came up pretty well. The new NED spot is close to the CM. The final data set was at a much higher alt and the cloud had cleared.

Have also attached animations of the R & RGB data resampled 130%, a couple of the images were more effected by cloud than others.


http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/s2012-04-14_tba_r130%25b.gif


http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/s2012-04-14_tba_rgb130%25.gif



Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[bird]

Good work Trev,

cheers, Bird

[Lester]

Very nice views there Trevor. Thanks.

[Clayton]

Lovely shots Trevor :thumbsup:
And very nice animations :)

[jjjnettie]

:) Love your work Trev.

[Shiraz]

great images Trevor. Regards Ray

[Quark]

Thanks Bird, spent a whole day Friday turning up a new adapter so instead of slipping the PM into and out of an adapter every time I now have a made to measure adapter permanently fixed to my imaging system. Reckon I was getting a little wear from all the change overs that was allowing the imaging assembly to tilt just a freckle. The new setup worked a treat Saturday night but had some persistent high alt Cirrus wafting through but still was pleased with the alignment.



Thanks Lester.



Thanks Rob, always enjoy putting animations together, but it does take up a fair bit of time.



Thanks very much Jeanette, now that you have dipped your toe in the water with planetary imaging I hope you go on with it.



Thanks very much Ray and congrats on your latest Sat & Mars also.
I still have not got to my Mars data from the 10th & 12th and the way things are going with Saturn I reckon I will just leave it.

[cybereye]

Trevor,

Very, very nice!

Cheers,
Mario

[lepton3]

Good images Trevor, especially given the low elevation and thin cloud.

I'm struck by how bright the rings are in IR as Saturn is at opposition.

-Ivan

[Matt Wastell]

The rings glow!
Great stuff Trevor.

[Quark]

Thanks very much Mario, Ivan & Matt, possibly a bit of Seeliger Effect happening with the rings as it is still not long past opposition.

Regards
Trevor