Uranus System Imaging Options

[Ian R]

Processed a superior version of the image I cobbled together last year. Now the brightest part of the Epsilon ring (at the 9 o'clock position) is more much evident:

[owlsyme]

> Scientists originally missed the find because the reddish dusty ring closest to Uranus wasn't visible in any individual image — Regan had to combine a host of images together for the feature to appear. "He took hundreds of images, stacked them together, to produce this image of the Uranian system," Hedman said. "This is the most comprehensive view of the zeta ring that exists and we didn't know it was in the Voyager data for decades."

Very cool, Ian!

UMSF's own Ian R making new discoveries in old Voyager 2 data, and also making space news headlines!

[Ian R]

Does anybody with a subscription to Sky and Telescope know if the recovery of the Zeta ring was reported in any of the issues published late 2022 / early 2023?

[Bjorn Jonsson]

It was reported in the February 2023 issue (page 11).

[titanicrivers]

Thank you Bjorn, Ian and Emily! See here https://is.gd/UranusRings

[antipode]

Uranus' polar cyclone imaged

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-scientists-po...one-uranus.html

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[antipode]

And now on the ArXiv.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15521.pdf

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[antipode]

Webb at it again with the 7th planet:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-rel...3/news-2023-150

The annotated wide field is especially stunning, fabulous sense of depth and scale

with those distant galaxies in the far far background, but also an active atmosphere

and a lot of moons visible on the closeup

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