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Object Saturn
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Observer Trevor Barry
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Comments: Imaged Saturn August 29th, have good 685nm IR and R channel data while G & B were fair. The IR nicely resolves the North polar vortex and vertices of the hexagon. Both IR and R data very nicely resolve the thin concentric banding within the North polar collar (NPR) and well resolve the fast moving dark and bright spots. IR and R data also well resolve a large elongated bright feature leading the dark spot bright spot combination. I measure the large bright elongated feature to be centered on approx Lat+63.5 L3 26.1 I measure the concentrated dark spot to be at approx Lat+64.7 L3 43.5 with the associated concentrated bright spot at approx Lat+63.6 L3 53.3. The R channel data also resolves a bright spot at approx Lat+35.7 L3 7.7. Of further interest, both IR and R channel data resolve a very concentrated v-small bright spot just peeking out from under the ring shadow in the EZ at approx Lat-6.9 L1 301.5

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Observation 1
Feature(s) N/A
Filter(s) ir
Date 2020-08-29 10:18:00
Julian day 2459090.9291666667
System I 298.74527°
System II N/A
System III 0.5657168°
Illumination 99.9%
Phase angle 3.700000047683716°
Solar longitude 5.9°
Eq. diameter 17.96″
Derotation 0.0 min