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[titanicrivers]

A fascinating presentation by Roe and Brown on a April 2008 storm exploding over the tropics of Titan and followed for a month using the Gemini North telescope with adaptive optics.
Here's the link: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cn...496&org=NSF

[titanicrivers]

I must confess not having the full Nature article and so not reading how the authors located the storm origin. However if the Gemini North photo I showed was taken in Hawaii (I used Hilo corrected UTC time of 8 pm on the 14th) and the solar system simulator (using the settings: Titan from Earth, 100% fov, view angle 0.0005) is correct then I'm having a hard time with the storm location for that image at least. Even on the 14th at 1 am Hilo time the simulator shows a similar view rotated about 15 degrees west.
Anybody know the accuracy of the simulator or some correction I failed to use?
The photo I used from Gemini was taken from the Caltech press release figure shown below:

A major storm erupts in the desert tropics of Titan.
[Credit: Emily Schaller et al./Gemini Observatory]