[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,
Today in an ESO press release on the current Great Saturn Storm, IR data from the VLT in Chile along with amateur visible light data from Broken Hill Australia was presented in a paper by Oxford University planetary physicist Dr Leigh Fletcher. This press release announces the publication of this paper in the AAAS Journal “Science” released today.
“Science”, which is published in the US, has the highest paid circulation of any peer reviewed general science journal in the world with an estimated readership of 1 million.
It certainly gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to have my work used by Leigh Fetcher and to see it presented side by side with data from the ESO’s VLT. It is great that Broken Hill received a mention in the notes on the image and it was a thrill to see the credit line, (ESO/University of Oxford/L.N. Fletcher/T. Barry).
It is most encouraging to see professionals recognizing the value of the contribution that amateurs can make and as time goes on there will obviously be many more opportunities for such pro/am collaborations.
The link below features details on the visible light an IR data used in the paper, in which Broken Hill Australia gets a mention.

http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1116a/
Have also attached a link to the full ESO announcement.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1116/
Have also attached a link to the NASA JPL media release on the same story.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-150&cid=release_2011-150&msource=c20110519&tr=y&auid=837 7233

Regards
Trevor