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Old 01-08-2011, 11:31 AM
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Quark (Trevor)
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Saturn July 31st in unexpectedly reasonable seeing

Imaged Saturn last night in quite unexpectedly reasonable seeing. The jetstream remains parked over me and I have included the jetstream chart from this session with my approx location marked in with a white "X".



Again there is a brighter high alt plume within the storm trail, I have measured it in WinJUPOS to be at approx CMIII 183 degrees. This plume is visible both in my RGB & 807nm IR data. Have attached 1 RGB & IR data set as well as animations of both data sets. The brighter plume comes up nicely in the animations.

I am very pleased with how the "C" ring came up in these images and there is even a hint of the Enke Gap. In the RGB's Tethys & Dione are above the rings on the right with Rhea below the rings on the right. In the 807nm IR images, as well as Tethys, Dione & Rhea, Enceladus is also just above the rings on the left.



I must say how pleased I am with the new custom optics in my scope, it is very pleasing to be getting results like this with such unfavorable jetstream conditions and bodes very well for what I will be able to produce over the next few years with Saturn coming ever further South.



Regards
Trevor
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