Saturn storms Dec 30th
Hi All,
Imaged Saturn this morning in pretty ordinary seeing, have 1 RGB and 1 807nm IR data set. When I hit the deck at 3 am CSST this morning it was still 28 degrees C in my dome which I had left open all night.
My final RGB at 19:06 UTC is the best image. I note that Anthony also imaged Saturn this morning and his RGB from 17:39 UTC, besides being a real bottler of an image, is very interesting. The hi res structure of the storm at CMIII 248.3 in Anthony's image would seem to fit nicely with the structure of the storm in my 19:06 UTC image CMIII 297.3.
When I initially looked at Anthony's image I didn't pay attention to the UTC and thought it must have been from a very similar time as the storm looked similar, Anthony's with North on top and mine with South on top, however these images are 87 min's apart so the storm detail in my image would tack on very nicely to the storm detail in the other image. This storm structure must extend at least half way around the planet with very bright cells at either end.
Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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