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Amateurs’ contributions to Saturn study during and after the Cassini era

@inproceedings{Fischer2018AmateursCT,
  title={Amateurs’ contributions to Saturn study during and after the Cassini era},
  author={Georg Fischer and Agust{\'i}n S{\'a}nchez-Lavega and Ricardo Hueso},
  year={2018}
}
During the Cassini mission around Saturn, amateurs’ observations were useful to follow the evolution of the features observed by Cassini with the Imaging Science Subsystem cameras. It also proved particularly useful for identifying and following the source of Saturn Electrostatic Discharges (SEDs) observed by the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument, as shown by a recent study on 2008 data. With the mission’s end, amateur observations prove even more important to measure the wind… 
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