Saturn 12/12

After an exciting 2 weeks where we had a brush with Super Typhoon Durian and a near miss with Typhoon Udon, clear skies are back. I was also sick after taking my last image probably due to flu and fatigue!

Condition was great this morning. The sky was very steady. Note the northern hemisphere of Saturn gets more and more visible now. The NNTZ is very prominent! There are even details on the NNTB!!

The Southern hemisphere belts are getting clearer as we get near opposition and as Saturn gets bigger and bigger.
This is my best image of Saturn!

More info at:

http://saturn.cstoneind.com

Regards,
Chris

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Very nice image Chris!

-JW:

Aloha
Again,wel done Chris !
Did you capture a storm ?
Freddy

Superb! Which camera are you using?

Hi Chris -

Glad to hear that you were not affected too badly by the recent typhoons.
This image has very fine banding detail. Can you explain more about strong cyan band just north of the ring shadow that doesn't seem to show the radial curve of the disk? Wish I had a nice sharp picture like this to refer to!

thanks -
Alan