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Originally Posted by Quark
Hi Steve,
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
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Tervor, nice animation, and well done on trying filezilla. I saw you were using Noise ninja so I've bought a copy of that to try out, it looks very useful.
I'm going to try and image this longitude again asap, I'm really curious about the bright spot we're seeing - if it was a moon then it would not appear at the same longitude each time.
regards, Bird