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Object Saturn
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URL s2019-10-09_09-36_685nmIR_tba.gif
Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn Oct 9th in very good seeing, have excellent depth of detail from limb to limb at all wavelengths. Have extensive data covering 94 minutes of Saturn rotation. The North Polar Hexagon is very well defined as is the North Polar Vortex. The longer I study the animations of these data and blink data sets the more discrete detail I see. To provide a report on all resolved detail would require a separate word file but some of the most prominent features include; a chain of bright spots in the Southern Hemisphere peeking out from the edge of the ring shadow, there are at least three possibly even more at approx Lat-6.3 L1 207.9 Lat-7 L3 195 & Lat-7.1 L3 187. A large diffuse bright spot at approx Lat+22.3 L3 315.5. There is extensive structure & detail resolved in the NPR including a dark spot at approx Lat+63.5 L3 9.3. The final IR of the session also resolves the 2010 GWS AV toward the F limb at approx Lat+42.5 L3 79.2. Of interest is an isolated diffuse dark spot resolved in R & G and RGB data at approx Lat+30.5 L3 345.8

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) 685nmIR
Date 2019-10-09 09:36:00
Julian day 2458765.9
System I 205.41986°
System II N/A
System III 357.81757°
Illumination 99.8%
Phase angle 5.699999809265137°
Solar longitude 356.1°
Eq. diameter 16.53″
Derotation 0.0 min