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Originally Posted by iceman
Excellent, Trevor. Lots of activity there. Moons or storms?
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Hi Mike,
I have been imaging Saturn on and off since the end of November, when requested to do so.
Over the last 4-5 weeks I have been regularly imaging a bright white spot in the EZn. I send all of my data to Georg Fischer at The Austrian Academy of Sciences. Georg contacts our team from time to time to survey particular regions for him, when his RPWS instrument on board Cassini picks up activity. We are currently surveying the long 300-350 degree region, where there may be possibly, multiple storms.
My images from Jan 20th included a bright white spot in the EZn region, it was brighter than the one in the same region in this mornings images. I thought it was an inner moon however Georg believes that it is an equatorial cloud system and he says it has been imaged previously.
The white spots in the SEBZ and STrZ are more interesting and may be storm activity. With the time difference between Broken Hill and Graz in Austria, Georg should be looking at my data at about 7pm CSST tomorrow night, which will be about 9am Monday morning, when he goes into his office. If Georgs analysis concludes that these are new storms I will post the info.
Regards
Trevor