Saturn 14 January 2011

Paul Haese · #1 15-01-2011, 08:19 AM

Reasonable still conditions here this morning.

I was expecting to get up and see this massive storm that everyone has been imaging but I picked the wrong morning it seems. There is evidence of the back side of the storm in this image; at least that is my thinking. Not sure of the storms current CM.

Also of interest is some very high latitude storm activity. Might be something in that.

Seeing was probably around 6.5/10 with very occassional sharp peaks. As usual the blue let down the image. Both red and green were quite sharp.

Click here for the image.

comments welcome.

asimov (John) · #2 15-01-2011, 08:59 AM

Looks good to me mate. Yes you got a portion of that massive storm. I don't know it's CM either. If this damned weather ever clears up & I get to actually SEE Saturn (let alone image it) then I might begin to take an interest in it's CM.

sheeny (Al) · #3 15-01-2011, 09:25 AM

A very nice image Paul.

Al.

samilag (Giuseppe) · #4 15-01-2011, 09:41 AM

Paul, spectacular picture with fantasic colors and details.

Thank you for share this fantastic saturn !!

Congratulation
Giuseppe

jakob · #5 15-01-2011, 10:52 AM

Very nice! I love the colours.
Thanks for posting.
(I'm still waiting for clear skies to look at it through my 16".)

Shiraz (Ray) · #6 16-01-2011, 12:20 AM

Beautiful image Paul. The storm is moving re system 3 - just did a (literally) back of the envelope projection and the CM3 for the main storm centre should currently be at about 340-350 if I got it right - somebody please correct if wrong.

michaellxv (Michael) · #7 16-01-2011, 01:55 AM

Lovely shot Paul. Looks like a few areas of storm activity there. And some nice detail in the rings too.

icytailmark (Mark) · #8 16-01-2011, 10:39 AM

hi paul are you having any problems with the paint coming off your CGE pro mount?

Paul Haese · #9 16-01-2011, 11:09 AM

Mark no problems with that.

Quark (Trevor) · #10 18-01-2011, 07:20 PM

Nice work Paul, got back home late last night and just browsing through the forums now, had 256 emails to wade through. Glad you were able to image part of this storm, it now extends over more than half the dia at this latitude. The brightest region would seem to be from approx 310 degrees to 350 degrees CMIII, a pretty amazing structure.

Regards
Trevor

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #11 19-01-2011, 08:20 PM

Thanks for the image Paul - I am so wanting to get out but things have not been good here in Brisbane!
That storm is a cracker!