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Originally Posted by kinetic
You have got better eyes than me Trev 
I use Filezilla heaps...it's very straight forward.
I can easily see the moon (top square frame 5) and I can also see
a dark shape if I concentrate on your animation for ages (bottom square frame 5).
Anything near the equator/ring plane would be a moon wouldn't it?
And because of the alignment with the sun/inner solar system/us and the
ring plane, I'd imagine a moon shadow would be close to the moon itself and not more toward the poles?
So what I can see (bottom square) would be a storm?..35N?
well done Trev
You certainly have your Saturn technique down to a fine art
regards,
Steve B. |
Hi Steve,
Yep FileZilla sure must be easy to install, even I managed to configure it and it actually worked.
I have spent so many hours staring at Saturn images that I reckon I can just about sense when there is something different.
As you suggest the spot near the equator has to be a moon, just haven't been able to identify which one, yet. It looks so similar to what Bird imaged on Jan 5th and is at a pretty similar longitude.
Any storm structure should be at about 35 Sth or Nth. The wind speeds closer to the equator should be too high for storm structure to develop and survive.
The bright spot that Bird imaged on Jan 5th, which has to be a moon, appeared to throw a definite shadow that seemed clearly separated from the bright spot and it's movement seems well synchronized with the bright spot or moon. Admittedly Bird has more image scale, 2 x against 5 x.
There was also another dark spot following the shadow in Birds animation at this same latitude.
Georg says that he is not currently detecting any SED's (Saturn Electrostatic Discharge) so any spots that we image at the moment may just be persistent spots and not storm structure.
Cheers
Trevor