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Observer seeks modeling assistance:

From tejf@hotmail.com Thu Jan 14 13:24 CST 1999

We have obtained during last years many good data about the latitudinal variations of the limb darkening and the
methane absorption bands intensity (equivalent widths and central residual intensity) for disks of Jupiter and Saturn using CCD-camera ST-6V and 1-meter telescope of our observatory Assy at 2750 m altitude (about 100 km eastern Alma-Ata city). I would like to ask you if possible to connect me kindly with any theoretician who may be interested in the interpretation of these data in terms of multilayer cloud atmospheric radiative transfer model (we haven't that opportunity here). I hope it would be good joint work. If you will find an opportunity and time to look on our observatory and some pictures illustrating our planetary studies, please, find in Internet URL
http://members.tripod.com/~Planlab/index.html and also some hyperreferences there about Jupiter spectrophotometry. There are some graphs about the methane absorption distribution on Jupiter's disk.

With kind regards, Victor Tejfel
Prof., Head of Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Physics,
Fessenkov Astrophysical Institute,
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
e-mail: tejf@hotmail.com
tejf@afi.academ.alma-ata.su

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February 1, 1999