Ever wish you lived in a dark dark place?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7468832.stm
Australian guy images electrical storm on Saturn and enjoys the sky down under.
Thanks to Jonathan Bingham for the link.

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society

Awesome! Sounds like another luck-of-the-draw as well, as anyone else using similar equipment under similar conditions around the same time could have spotted it too (remember the 13 year old boy who found the supernova in the Whirlpool (M51) galaxy some years back?). And, this guy even beat a multibillion dollar spacecraft already at Saturn! :shock:

Cassini first imaged electrical storms in November 2007. Cassinis instruments track the storm every 10 hours and forty minutes , as the planet rotates.

As Cassinis camera's cannot track the storm everyday , the imaging team are in contact with amateur astronomers around the world.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society

"Dark Dark Place"?

Renvyle Connemara.

Nearest traffic light is 70 miles away.

Heres my double storm from the beginning of May.



Over-processed to highlight the storms

Nasa...Nasa....I'm over here!!

Thanks Deirdre for posting the link.

Keith that is a stunning image you got of saturn!


jonathan bingham