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Uranus 15 August 2016, John Sussenbach

Uranus 15 August 2016

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Uranus is rising in my place now to altitude 45º. This night the seeing conditions were fair. I collected four sets of 2350 frames (2 min each)and stacked 90% of the frames of each avi. I processed and combined the stacks and obtained the final image with an average time stamp of 02: 31.6 UT. Interestingly, the final stack consisting of a total of about 8400 frames shows a brighter Northern hemisphere, two dark bands at +30º, a brighter zone at 0º followed by a darker band at latitude -15º and finally a brighter most southern region.

Interestingly the image contained a brighter spot with the coordinates longitude 241.9º, latitude + 56.7º . Since the original images are a bit grainy I always consider the possibility that this is just accumulated noise. Therefore, I analysed the four independent stacks and noted that in three out of the four stacks the brighter spot was present at the mentioned position (see iimage) This is promising, but I am still cautious and am very curious whether other amateurs or professionals have imaged Uranus at the same time as I did or close to it.

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Uranus 15 August 2016, John Sussenbach