Imaged Saturn Oct 12th in good seeing for the altitude. It is becoming more difficult as Saturn sinks lower in the West and the seeing needs to be good to resolve worthwhile detail. Have attached an animation of two data sets, each data set represents 9 minutes of data and the centre points of the data are 10 minutes apart. The animation resolves the EZ feature we have seen over the last couple of months, it is close to the CM, of course there is only 10 minutes of Saturn rotation and the movement of the feature reflects that. I also see a bright cloud which I measure to be at Lat +44.3 L3 163.6 at first this was quite difficult to pick out but becomes more obvious when concentrating on the animation. It is approx midway between the CM and F limb. This bright cloud was more apparent in my data from Sept 24th & 28th but those data were captured at considerably higher altitude.
Thanks Paul, with Saturn continuing to climb higher for us through to 2018 there will be many opportunities to get excellent data. I live in hope of a repeat of the Great Storm while it is virtually directly over the top of my observatory. Even without any SED's there have still been interesting atmospheric features to track this apparition.
It is also just about over for me for this apparition. As it heats up out here, with Saturn so low, I am looking through the hot air from the day dissipating back up into the atmosphere. By the time Saturn returns for next apparition you will have well and truly fine tuned your new beast with Jupiter so I look forward to see your results in good seeing at high alt.
