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RE: Saturn

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Transit of a bright storm on Saturn at 34° North (Saturnine System III longitude=330°) at 23:35 GMT, 10th March, 2011.

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Saturn Image 2010/12/10(UT)

Jean Jacques Poupeau (350mm Cassegrain)
The transparency and the seeing were very bad.
In spite of the seeing bad, an enormous white storm is visible in the NTB (images taken with the red filter 25A)
T = -5.1°C
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Saturn

Date: 23:50 UT, 24th June 2010

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Saturn in the constellation Virgo

Date: 02:31 UT, 24th February 2010

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Saturn's aurorae offer stunning double show

Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of the giant planet's poles. Saturn is only in this position every 15 years and this favourable orientation has allowed a sustained study of Saturn's almost symmetric northern and southern lights.
An enormous and grand ringed planet, Saturn is certainly one of the most intriguing bodies orbiting the Sun. Hubble has now taken a fresh look at the fluttering aurorae that light up both of Saturn's poles.
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Saturn through a Telescope

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Every wonder what Saturn looks like through a large amateur telescope? Well here it is, taken with a TouCam webcam, 3x barlow through a Celestron C9.25". The shimmering in the image is due to atmospheric turbulence. To keep the planet centered at very high magnification, an equatorial mount was used with accurate polar alignment.

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Saturn

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Saturn mak 127

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Saturn, Regulus and the Moon
Time: 11:39UT, 8th June, 2008.

-- Edited by Blobrana at 00:50, 2008-06-09