Amateur observations of Saturn's 2010 Great White Spot

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1526d&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1526

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The occurrence of huge giant storms on Saturn, called Great White Spots (GWSs), is once per Saturnian's year (29,5 years). For the last GWS (1990, cf. [1]), amateur astronomers did not have the means to image planets as they have nowadays, and could not participate to the study of that rare event. Since Dec. 2010, a new GWS appeared in Saturn's northern hemisphere, around 34° planetocentric latitude. This event have been covered by all amateurs around the world using up to date imaging technology, leading to professional papers using their data and analysis. Their coverage allowed a daily tracking of this GWS evolution.

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