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Old 19-05-2010, 12:46 PM
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Saturn storm in very good seeing + Jupiter with GRS

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn early last night in very good seeing. Out here the seeing is often very good early on and just seems to hang in for hours.

These images have been heavily processed to highlight the SED's related storm. I have attached 4 RGB's that cover the transit of the storm and also an animation of the 5 RGB's that were captured over this session.

Hit the deck again at 4:30 am CST for Jupiter for my first attempt at the GRS for this apparition. The image was very stable but the seeing for the entire session was effected by very light high altitude Cirrus that was wafting through, this has made my images a bit softish.

I have posted 2 Jupiter RGB's, in the first Io is in transit about 3/4 of the way across the planet to the East. In the second image Io is in transit but close to the limb and is very bright. The GRS seems very lonely and marooned in a very quiet SEB. There is a most interesting rift in the NEB that seems to have an associated white oval.

With my Jupiter images I do no post capture colour adjustment as I rely on my histogram settings at capture for colour balance.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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