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Uranus Image 2014/10/02(UT)

Anthony Wesley,Marc Delcroix
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Anthony Wesley (406mm Newton)
Hi all,apologies if Uranus is not your thing,or if you receive this multiple times - I'm sending this to all my mailing lists
In the last couple of weeks amateurs from France have reported seeing a bright storm on Uranus,
and last night was my first opportunity in good seeing to look for it. 
I was blessed with good seeing and the storm is extremely bright and clearly visible - see attached image.
This is a great opportunity for anyone into high res planetary imaging to grab a rare image of a bright storm on Uranus. 
Here are approximate transit times for this feature for the next few weeks,and the predicted longitude for the storm -
 assuming we have a good value for it's drift rate (seems to be pretty close to -17.9 degrees/day). 
The Oct 2 prediction for last night was very close to correct however there may well be updates to this prediction as we go along.
2014 Oct 01   06:01 ( 264°)   22:40 ( 252°)
2014 Oct 02   15:18 ( 239°)   ------- My observation
2014 Oct 03   07:57 ( 227°)
2014 Oct 04   00:36 ( 214°)   17:15 ( 202°)
2014 Oct 05   09:53 ( 189°)
2014 Oct 06   02:32 ( 177°)   19:11 ( 165°)
2014 Oct 07   11:50 ( 152°)
2014 Oct 08   04:28 ( 140°)   21:07 ( 127°)
2014 Oct 09   13:46 ( 115°)
2014 Oct 10   06:25 ( 103°)   23:03 (  90°)
2014 Oct 11   15:42 (  78°)
2014 Oct 12   08:21 (  65°)
2014 Oct 13   01:00 (  53°)   17:38 (  40°)
2014 Oct 14   10:17 (  28°)
2014 Oct 15   02:56 (  16°)   19:35 (   3°)
2014 Oct 16   12:13 ( 351°)
2014 Oct 17   04:52 ( 338°)   21:31 ( 326°)
2014 Oct 18   14:10 ( 314°)
2014 Oct 19   06:48 ( 301°)   23:27 ( 289°)
2014 Oct 20   16:06 ( 276°)
2014 Oct 21   08:45 ( 264°)
2014 Oct 22   01:23 ( 251°)   18:02 ( 239°)
2014 Oct 23   10:41 ( 227°)
2014 Oct 24   03:20 ( 214°)   19:58 ( 202°)
2014 Oct 25   12:37 ( 189°)
2014 Oct 26   05:16 ( 177°)   21:55 ( 165°)
2014 Oct 27   14:34 ( 152°)
2014 Oct 28   07:12 ( 140°)   23:51 ( 127°)
2014 Oct 29   16:30 ( 115°)
2014 Oct 30   09:09 ( 103°)


Here's an animation of Uranus in 15-minute intervals spanning the predicted transit time of this storm. The changes in brightness are most likely due to seeing variability at my location and nothing intrinsic.

[Anthony Wesley,Murrumbateman Australia]
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Marc Delcroix (Pic du Midi 1000mm)


All of this reminded me something, I remembered having seen something suspect on my on Pic du Midi images. 
I hence analyzed again all of them, and here it was, two years ago in October 2014, 
I got maybe the first detection of tha tring in infrared at Pic du Midi, 
thanks to these new infrared sensitive cameras ! :

[Marc Delcroix  Tournefeuille,France]
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