Saturn and her moons

by Paul LeFevre

Had a chance to do a portrait of Saturn and some of her moons last night. Didn't have time to mount a "big" scope, so I used my TV NP-101 with a 4X powermate. Canon 20D camera, 1 sec. exposure at 2160mm FL and f/21.6:

http://www.lefevre.darkhorizons.org/saturn1_18_05.jpg

The brightest background object is a star (618ly)... Titan is at the bottom, Rhea at the top furthest from the planet, Dione and Tethys closer in just above it, and Iapetus is visible (just barely) on a diagonal from the star to Titan. Seemed an appropriate time to get Saturn and her retinue...:)

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Posted on calastro Jan 18, 2005 08:01:51 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.2 Jan 27, 2005 21:32:11 PT