[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn this morning from 1 am CSST through to 3 am CSST.

The sky was clear and the seeing not to bad at about 5 1/2 to 6 / 10, the seeing was effected by the jetstream. The GFS charts indicate that it should be great for Wednesday morning but that doesn't fit in with imaging the region of the storm.

Have 5 RGB's that I have put into an animation, again, there is some very nice rippling on the edge of the NEB, EZ border.

I have attached an image prior to the storm rotating into view which was captured in the best seeing of this session, the ring brightening effect mentioned by Bird is most prominent, an unusual look indeed.

I have also attached my final image for the session with the storm close to the CM. It is not as bright as the last time I imaged it on March 17th, it is still quite extended in longitude. I attempted to measure this spread with WinJUPOS and it seems to extend over approx 16 degrees. To minimize any spreading effect from the time it took to capture the 3 channels I did the measurement on the R channel image.

Thanks for looking.
Regard Trevor

PS: The images with the storm are processed heavier than I would normally go, to better define the storm.