Saturn 2012 - 2013

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 21-03-2013, 11:42 AM

Here's an interesting comparison of the changing appearance of Saturn from one year to the next... in particular you can see that the polar hex was not easy to see last year as the entire polar hood was quite dark in colour, something that's clearly changed with the increased sunlight on the north pole over the last 12 months...

cheers, Bird

SkyViking (Rolf) · #2 21-03-2013, 12:52 PM

That's an interesting comparison, and awesome that one can actually clearly see the polar hexagon shape! Great work

multiweb (Marc) · #3 21-03-2013, 02:37 PM

The difference is striking indeed. Nice side by side.

04Stefan07 (Stefan) · #4 21-03-2013, 04:32 PM

Nice shots!

iceman (Mike) · #5 21-03-2013, 04:34 PM

Very nice Anthony, beautiful images.

Larryp (Laurie) · #6 21-03-2013, 04:37 PM

A marked difference in appearance! Lovely images

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #7 21-03-2013, 08:42 PM

Super comparison there Anthony - thanks for the views!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 22-03-2013, 10:40 AM

Thanks guys, we have Saturn nice and high in Australia now for many years to come, lets hope we can get some good seeing to go with it...

cheers, Bird