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Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn June 29th covering just over 3 hours of Saturn rotation. Seeing was fair but the 685nm IR data actually came up better than I expected. The IR data well resolves a large elongated bright feature just within the NPR at approx Lat+64 L3 330.2 along with a mid latitude bright spot at approx Lat+30.3 L3 26.9. The EZ remains active with some low contrast bright spots, have marked the most prominent of these in the animations at approx Lat+1.6 L1 62.3 this bright feature is elongated but more so at an inclined angle to rather than parallel with the EZ. Associated with this bright feature is a linear dark feature, this shows up well in the IR animation. A ripple in the Northern edge of the EZ impinging up into the NEB is well seen at approx Lat+15 L1 115.2. Have uploaded a full set of IR and RGB polar maps, also a animation of the IR maps which seems to show the series of bright spots within the EZ near the border with the NEB.

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) CH4
Date 2021-06-29 15:10:00
Julian day 2459395.1319444445
System I 81.05049°
System II N/A
System III 30.376701°
Illumination 99.9%
Phase angle 3.4000000953674316°
Solar longitude 15.2°
Eq. diameter 18.17″
Derotation 0.0 min