[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

Always enjoy your images Trevor, you've inspired me to have a crack at tonight's double transit.

Cheers

Rusty

Thanks very much Russel.

Originally Posted by Sebbie

Nice captures Trevor, fantastic Saturn effort for the low altitude!

Rgds, Seb

Thanks very much Seb, for the mid point of this data Saturn was at an alt of 25 degrees. We have much to look forward to with Saturn this apparition and it will continue to climb even higher through to 2018.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Love Saturn's rings nearly wide open. Jupiter apparition a little better, not a bad colour result.

John.

Thanks very much John, yep, great to see the rings open and great to get an even better look at the North Polar Hexagon. Note that 3 of the hexagons vertice's can be seen in this data. Jupiter has been a bit of a challenge, at least it is a couple of degrees higher this apparition as it begins to swing back to the South. The jet stream has been unusually active over my region this last 12 months so it was nice to have some relief from it on this morning.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great shots Trevor

I see what look like diagonal cloud bands up near the small spot top right of disc, they look amazing, haven't seen such features before

As John says, seeing the rings so open again...is err?..actually showing my age

Mike

Thanks very much Mike, there does seem to be a diagonal structure extending up from oval BA toward the "P" limb. The effect is seen in all channels and in all of my data from this session. I checked the PVOL data base for recent data at a similar Sys II longitude and found a very hi-res image taken by Ian Sharp, I believe from Spain, on January 4th.

Ian's image is orientated with North up. But iff you rotate my image to also orientate North up you can see the hi-res detail in Ians image in this region coming from oval BA. What is appearing in my data as a diagonal structure is resolved into discrete detail in Ian's image.
The difference between the two data sets is a reflection on the difference in altitude of Jupiter, nice and high in Spain and the difference in the quality of the seeing.

Reckon the ring opening relative to Earth, approaching its max really is quite significant. This is the first time in about 30 years we will get such a good look at the North Pole and the majesty of this side of the rings wide open. With the ever increasing quality of cameras for planetary imaging. just how good is this going to be.

To see the image of Ian Sharps I referred to above go to the PVOL link.
http://www.pvol.ehu.es/pvol/
PVOL > Images > PVOL Jupiter.
Date 2015-01-04
Time 01-30
Author Ian Sharp and then click over on the file j2015-04-01_01-30_rgb_is.jpg

Regards
Trevor