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Hi All,
Pretty excited, as most here would know, I supply my Saturn data to a researcher on the Cassini RPWS team ( Radio & Plasma Wave Science) who is now at The Austrian Academy of Sciences. He contacted our group on Feb 24th with the news that he had detected a new outbreak of SED's ( Saturn Electrostatic Discharge), lightning. This radio data from the Cassini spacecraft only provides an estimate for the location of the storm and Georg relies on amateur images to actually identify the optical counterpart to the radio data. Only with this can he do his scientific analysis of the dynamics contributing to the source of the SED's.
As I mentioned in my thread this was my first opportunity to image the target region. Georg is really only interested in accurate positional data for the storm, though it is nice to achieve this on a nice image. I did not sleep at all yesterday until I had measured the position accurately with WinJUPOS and sent my data to Georg.
This morning Georg emailed me with the news that the white spot that I have imaged in the STrZ is indeed the source of his SED's outburst, did I mention that I am pretty excited. This really makes the time and effort that I put in most satisfying.
Regards
Trevor
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