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Saturn Image 2024/08/24(UT)
高尾幸弘
Luigi Morrone,Paul G. Abel
L.Morrone,Y.Takao,P.Abel

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Average seeing conditions. Titan on the right side of the globe

[Luigi Morrone : City Agerola Italy]

今年の北海道は、望遠鏡を出して撮影できる日が例年に比べてかなり少ないように思います。

<<北海道札幌市  高尾幸弘>>[Yukihiro Takao.Sapporo-city,Hokkaido,Japan]

IN general seeing was around AIV but it was possible to use a power of x188 to discern a number of features.  In particular, it was clear that all of the belts in the southern hemisphere were much less distinct and defined compared to those in the northern hemisphere:
Globe:
・SPR a vague greyish region
・STZ a light colour zone and featureless
・STB seen but again faint and a bluish colour
・STropZ a bright zone, yellowish in colour
・SEB is perhaps the most diffuse I've ever seen it (I would normally expect it to be similar to the NEB), a greenish blue tint was present
・EZ(s) a bright zone and contained the ShRG
・EZ(n) also a bright zone and a EB could be seen
・NEB a dark broad band, brown in colour with two distinctive well defined components, the NEB(s) which was the darkest component and a thinner NEB(n).  Both these components were not uniform bands but appeared to be made of a series of irregular sections joined together.
・NTropZ a bright yellowish zone
・NTB (or is this the NNTB?) seen further north, brown in colour.
・NTZ a light zone with a slight greenish tint.
・NPR a darker region and sl;ightly better defined than the SPR.  NPR seemed to have a brownish colour.
Rings:
・A-Ring slightly darker, yellowish-grey colour.
・Cassini Division seen at the ansae edges
・C-Ring visible as a vague irregular glow at the centre of the ansae.
・ShGR also seen.
Titan can be seen close to the the following limb and was a distinctive orange colour.  The satellite near the preceding ansae is Tethys, the satellite visible close to the flowing ansae is Mimas.

[Paul G. Abel:Leicester:United Kingdom]

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