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Old 31-03-2010, 05:04 PM
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Saturn, Titan & storm remnant morning of March 31st

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn this morning over a 2 hrs 30 min session in an attempt to catch the remnant of the SED's storm. Cassini RPWS has not detected any SED's since March 23rd and the storm has been fading significantly.
This also occurred with the record breaking storms of 2008 & 2009 and in each instance the storm regenerated.

The seeing for the first 90 min's was good at 6 to 6 1/2 / 10 but it fell away badly over the last hour with my final capture in seeing of about 4 1/2 / 10.

I have 6 sets of RGB data and have attached 1 RGB from early in the session prior to the storm remnant rotating into view. Have also attached the 4 th and 5 th RGB's, both of which have the storm in them. It is very faint but if you look closely in the STrZ region you will see the storm.

Have also attached an animation of all 6 RGB's, the storm is in the final 3 frames. The final frame was captured in poor seeing. Titan is in all 6 of the images in the animation. There is also a very nice ripple in the NEB along its border with the EZ.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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