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Old 13-06-2011, 03:51 PM
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Saturn June 12th, head of the storm in good seeing

Hi All,

Sorry about clogging up the planetary forum with Saturn data.

Imaged Saturn again last night in an effort to obtain hi-res data of the head of the storm. The seeing was good for the first hour but then got softer.

Have attached 2 good RGB & 807nm IR data sets. There is excellent detail in both, especially the IR. The 3 moons in IR are from left to right Titan Dione & Tethys.

Tethys can be seen in the 2nd RGB in transit as a tiny white dot above the ring plane on the right hand or following limb.

Have also attached inverted (negative) versions of the 2 RGB images which tend to hi-light even more the structure in the region of the head of the storm.

Also attached a link to a most interesting animation of all the RGB data.

http://iceinspace.com.au/uploads/20110612SatRGBanim.gif

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor
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