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Object Saturn
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Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn August 23rd in good to very good seeing, have data covering 4 hrs of Saturn rotation. Detail resolved in these data. A compact bright spot at approx Lat+65.5 L3 278.9 resolved in IR and R data. A bright oval in NTeZ impinging up into the NTeB at approx Lat+45.5 L3 335.4 resolved in IR and R data. A large low contrast light feature best seen in data near the CM at approx Lat+30.7 L3 27.8 resolved in IR data. A large white oval at approx Lat+30.2 L3 312.3 resolved in R and RGB data. A compact bright spot in the EZ at approx Lat+11.7 L1 44 resolved in CH4 data. A large low contrast light spot in the EZ at approx Lat+8.1 L1 105.2 resolved in IR and R data. A compact bright spot on edge of ring shadow at approx Lat-19.2 L1 123.4 resolved in IR and R data. A compact bright spot on edge of ring shadow at approx Lat-18.2 L1 82.2 resolved in R data. A pair of compact bright spots at approx Lat-24.7 L3 272.2 and L3 280.1 resolved in IR data. I have marked the western edge of a lighter linear feature that has formed in the SEB at approx Lat-26 L3 286.4 extending eastward to approx L3 256.6 resolved in R and RGB data. I note a series of bright spots at approx Lat-31 and have marked one of them at approx Lat-31.4 L3 358.2 resolved in R data. A bright spot at approx Lat-51 L3 306.6 resolved in R and RGB data. The long lived red spot at approx Lat-56.4 L3 31.1 resolved in IR and R data.

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) rgb
Date 2023-08-23 13:41:00
Julian day 2460180.070138889
System I 25.368078°
System II N/A
System III 314.56512°
Illumination 100.0%
Phase angle 0.5°
Solar longitude 39.7°
Eq. diameter 18.87″
Derotation 0.0 min