Saturn observed on 3 August 1933. The drawing and text are by the British comedian and amateur astronomer William Thomson Hay (1888-1949). He is recording here his most famous observation,that of a white spot on Saturn. This spot,most probably a storm system of some kind in the clouds of Saturn,lasted for a few months and then faded away. Observations of the spot allowed accurate measurements of the Saturn's equatorial rotation rate. Hay,who lived in London,had become a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1932. Most of his observations were of the positions of comets | |
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