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Object Saturn
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URL s2023-07-16_17-38_ir_tba.png
Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn July 16th targeting a transit of the Lat-55 long lived bright spot. Seeing was variable and initially I was worried that I would not be able to stack enough frames to eek out the spot but the data proved just good enough. Have only 685nm IR and CH4 data, R G and B were a waste of time. These data cover 2 hr 28 min of Saturn rotation. The long lived bright spot is resolved at approx Lat-55.5 L3 153.9. A v-long thin bright feature mid SEB is seen centered at approx Lat-33.2 extending from L3 161.2 back to L3 199. Previously when I have captured this feature in good seeing it has resolved into multiple bright spots v-close together.

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) ir
Date 2023-07-16 17:38:00
Julian day 2460142.234722222
System I 117.52573°
System II N/A
System III 234.50829°
Illumination 99.9%
Phase angle 4.099999904632568°
Solar longitude 38.5°
Eq. diameter 18.34″
Derotation 0.0 min