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Southern Storm, Visible in Amateur Scopes
SigurRosFan
post Feb 14 2006, 06:14 PM
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Amateur photo:


--- The storm's north-south dimension is about 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles); it is located at minus 36 degrees (planetocentric) latitude and 168 degrees west longitude. ---

Cassini (reprojected view):


- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07789 - Storm at Night (Reprojected View)

- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07788 - Storm at Night (Limb View)

- http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02166 - Lightning Sounds from Saturn (Audio)


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post Apr 21 2006, 08:03 PM
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Very fun, Bob biggrin.gif . And thanks for the infos, ugordan.. I didn't know about HAL filter, anyway your explaination about bright spots sounds right (and in fact I was very skeptic about lighting explaination).


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post May 11 2006, 05:50 AM
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On May,08 Cassini Narrow-field camera taken many images of saturn atmosphere through green and CB3 filters, from about 2.8 million Km.
This is a stitch of 5 CB3 images (better showing atmospheric features):
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post May 25 2006, 05:58 AM
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Sequence of CB2 and CL2 filtered images taken on May,23:
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