Saturn storm in STrZ 3rd June 2009

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi all,

Imaged the storm in the STrZ tonight, captured 4 sets of R, G and B avi's each avi was 900 frames. Stacked the best 350 from each avi.

To capture this feature I had to be imaging at 6:50 pm CST, this was relatively close to sunset and the ambient temp drops very quickly early in the night. I struggled to maintain my primary mirror within the .5 of a degree C tolerance that my optical system seems to require for optimum performance, depending on the seeing.

Tonight the rings were open just under 4 degrees, relative to the Earth.

The seeing was quite reasonable at about 6/10 and improved through the night. I have attached the best RGB image and an animation of the four. The animation represents the movement of the storm over a 50 minute period.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[kinetic (Steve)]

Sensational stuff Trevor!

The high is pretty stable here too Trev, hope it stays for a while.

Steve

[iceman (Mike)]

That's a bright storm, Trevor. Well captured.

You could adjust the background levels a bit - it's quite reddish.

[Lester]

Good on ya Trevor, another great capture of Saturn with storm.

You make it look so easy; but I know it isn't.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Lester

Good on ya Trevor, another great capture of Saturn with storm.


You make it look so easy; but I know it isn't.

Thanks Lester, but I was a bit slack with the processing of these images.

Originally Posted by iceman

That's a bright storm, Trevor. Well captured.

You could adjust the background levels a bit - it's quite reddish.

Thanks Mike, could you or another moderator correct the date in the title for me please?

Mike, I used a different and quicker processing scheme this time, I am reprocessing the image that I posted right now, it will take a lot longer but the result will be better.

Originally Posted by kinetic

Sensational stuff Trevor!
June in the title mate...sorry!
The high is pretty stable here too Trev, hope it stays for a while.

Steve

Thanks Steve,
Wrong date, I suppose I should have hastened more slowly.
This high pressure system does look great, should be pretty stable for a while, I hope.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi all,
Last night to get my processing over quicker I made a few to many short cuts. Attached is the same image but processed with the much longer regime that I normally use. The difference is considerable.

Regards
Trevor

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Always enjoy your Saturn shots. The animation shows it up really clearly

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Nicely captured again, Trevor. Well done!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Jen]

Another stunning Saturn image Trevor nice work cheers