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Object Saturn
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File size 128.0 KB
URL s2023-04-02_19-45_ir_tba.png
Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn April 2nd in good seeing, have good 742nm IR and RGB data. The Sun was very near the horizon when capturing the RGB data. Normally I would go with 4 x 90s R, 4 x 90s G and 4 x 90s B, after capturing the 4 lots of R data I was worried about just how close the Sun was to coming over the horizon so only went with 2 x 90s G and 2 x 90s B but it was all good data and the RGB image came up rather well. I have 2 x 742nm IR data sets centered approx 20 minutes apart, initially nothing really jumped out at me but when I animated them a rather interesting low contrast bright spot was revealed at approx Lat-55.3 L3 128.5.

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) ir
Date 2023-04-02 19:45:00
Julian day 2460037.3229166665
System I 96.48827°
System II N/A
System III 128.91582°
Illumination 99.9%
Phase angle 3.700000047683716°
Solar longitude 35.2°
Eq. diameter 15.66″
Derotation 0.0 min