Saturn March 5th in good seeing.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Imaged Saturn March 5th in the best seeing I have had this apparition. There are 5 white spots in my data, all are visible in RGB with only the brightest one prominent in IR and R data.

All data is on PVOL and for each set I have an inset of a more heavily processed version which clearly show these spots.

I measure them as follows; in the IR data set from 19:20 UTC one spot at Lat +24 L3 303.1
in the R data set from 18:58:54 UTC one spot at Lat +24.2 L3 303.1
in the RGB data set from 18:33:30 UTC four white spots Lat +24.6 L3 303.7, Lat +29.9 L3 321.6, Lat +29.9 L3 264.4, Lat +29.9 L3 244.9

Interesting that three of these white spots are spread out over the same Latitude at +29.9

The brightest spot is well seen in animations of my 685nm IR, R and RGB data.
All four white spots are well seen in my RGB animation.

I have attached the animations here.

Regards
Trevor

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

On a roll Trevor, Great work.

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks Trevor

[ags_ (Phil)]

Fabulous images Trevor, congratulations.

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Excellent captures Trevor.
The seeing here in mid NSW has been rather poor of late.

[John Hothersall]

That is amazing. The banding on the colour image is so fine. The hexagon is a stand out and lovely point storm detail with the 685 filter.

I have just bought a 685nm filter as Saturn is quite faint in 742nm IR.

Great Results! John.

[andyc (Andy)]

That's magnificent, with all the storm details on the planet

[Somnium (Aidan)]

great view of the hex storm! amazing detail

[Quark (Trevor)]

Thanks Graeme, had very stable air for a few days.

Thanks Derek.

Thanks Phil.

Thanks Ralf, out here the seeing predictions have been good for a week or so but on several occasions I missed out due to cloud.

Thanks John, I have 685, 742 & 806nm IR filters. With this new PGR camera even the 806 will run at 70 fps with a 90% histo and heaps of gain to spare. All of these filters are long pass so I like the 685 as that is also picking up the end of the Red part of the spectrum. All filters show the hex well and even nicely define the North Polar Vortex at its centre.

Thanks Andy, it really does require good seeing to define this storm detail and I was lucky on this occasion to get them.

Thanks Aidan, yes the hexagon is very well defined.

[Rick Parrott]

...just needs a little Enterprise arriving
Great images!