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Old 18-07-2012, 07:22 PM
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Saturn July 17th white spot

Hi All,


Imaged Saturn last evening, all of the computer weather models predicted atrocious conditions but it had been a very clear, still day so I had a go anyway.


The seeing was very fast but I was quite pleasantly surprised with this data. There is a largish white spot on the Southern edge of the great storm remnant, it is very close to the CM in my R channel data from 8:58:16 UTC and RGB from 09:00 UTC. It shows up well in both the R & RGB animations.


I measured its position with WinJUPOS and it is at approx CMIII 127.4 Lat +50.1.
I believe there are several of these features as I have seen similar at various times when I have been able to capture data on consecutive nights.


Have attached 1 R & RGB data set along with animations of all R & RGB data from this session.


Buoyed by my results with Saturn I was up this morning to capture Jupiter but in this instance the predictions were spot on, the seeing was abysmal and I ended up deleting all of my data.


Thanks for looking.

Regards
Trevor
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