Saturn June 30th bright EZ spot

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Imaged last night in quite variable seeing. Have captured a bright EZ spot, it looks similar to the two bright EZ spots in my April 26th data.

Was only able to stack between 30 & 40% of my data but this is still the best seeing I have had in about 2 months, a rather sad statement on the persistence of the Jetstream.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor

[allan gould]

Trevor, thats really faint and a great capture. Just under the rings?
Allan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Wow, that is great work for the current trying conditions. regards ray

[icytailmark (Mark)]

hard to tell if its a band or a storm

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by icytailmark

hard to tell if its a band or a storm

Hi Mark, certainly not a band, quite a condensed discrete bright spot, well that is what I see. Reckon all of the years that I have been chasing SED's related spots on Saturn certainly has me attuned to picking up on tiny features such as this. I should add that no SED's have been detected by Cassini RPWS thus far this year.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Wow, that is great work for the current trying conditions. regards ray

Thanks Ray, there have been times over the last couple of months that I thought maybe I should take up macramé. Even with the jet I have still been regularly imaging the dark oval to keep my drift chart & spreadsheet going. It really is quite amazing how bad the data can be and yet still be possible to resolve the dark oval, well....so long as it is imaged close to the CM, which the predictions from my drift chart allow me to do.

Originally Posted by allan gould

Trevor, thats really faint and a great capture. Just under the rings?
Allan

Thanks Allan, yep, just under the rings. Actually marginally in the Southern Hemisphere. The Voyager probes back in 1980/81 were the first to image features like this in the EZ. Several times this year I have imaged similar EZ spots, occasionally two of them in the same field.

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Great images Trevor.
The jet steam is causing crap seeing up here in Cairns as well.

[U.K.Cowboy (Stuart)]

Super late season images Trevor!