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Old 27-05-2009, 06:40 AM
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Quark (Trevor)
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Saturn storm in STrZ 26th May in good seeing

Hi All,
Imaged Saturn tonight in the early evening, best seeing I have had since May 5th about 7/10.

For so early in the evening the seeing was very steady. I have attached 3 RGB images taken 10 minutes apart starting from 09:40 UTC.

Each channel is a capture of 900 frames with the best 450 frames stacked. Each RGB represents 1350 frames. The storm is quite bright and is marked. I have been tracking this storm since January. I have also attached an animation of the 3 RGB's.

Images were captured with a DMK 21 AU104, Orion filter wheel with Astronomic RGB filters, a JMI Moto focus on a 16" F4.5 Newt on a GEM with Annsen Technologies dual axis drive and drive corrector. My primary mirror has a Peltier cooling system.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor
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