[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Well, the weather has been pretty crook for a while now on the nights that I need to attempt to image the storm in the STrZ on Saturn that I have been tracking since January.

Tonight there was some cloud around and the seeing was about 6/10.
I captured 3 sets of RGB's but only one set was worth processing. My first set of RGB's when the storm would have been at the CM was just too close to twilight, my second set 15 minutes later was reasonable data and the third set of RGB's suffered as Saturn moved into the top of my neighbors palm tree.

I was extremely pleased when I processed this RGB image as the storm in the STrZ still survives. It is hard to detect but never the less it is there.

The rings tonight were open 2.9 degrees relative to Earth. This may be my final image of Saturn for this apparition. I am very pleased to have picked up the storm although it is hard to see, I thought it may have finally dissipated as I could not detect it back on the 1st July, although that was in very bad seeing.

This storm may well end up being the longest lived ever recorded at Saturn.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor