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17 years 10 months ago #40679 by Frank Ryan
Saturn and its moons was created by Frank Ryan
I thought this might make for an intersting shot.
Saturn is wildly overexposed but the moons showed up nicely.
I think there are a few stars in there as well!
I was trying to work out which were which.
Best guess is starting from left to right,
Rhea & Tethys (Saturn), Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus then ?
Anyone who thinks they can work out the rest please feel free to have a go!
It was taken 6th Feb at 10:00pm




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17 years 10 months ago #40681 by JohnMurphy
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Frank,

From left to right I would reckon it's Rhea, Enceladus or Tethys, and on the right it's either Titan or Hyperion, probably Titan. That could be Iapetus right of Titan. :P

Nice shot BTW :D

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17 years 10 months ago #40686 by dmcdona
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Frank - I just love shots of the planetary moons. If its something that interests you, how about take a sequence over a few days and see if you can animate it...

Dave

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17 years 10 months ago #40689 by dave_lillis
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A very interesting image Frank, I don't think anyone here has done this with Saturn's moon yet.
A time lapse would be great but some of those moon move so quickly it might be difficult as they might look like they are just jumping around, but worth a go all the same.

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17 years 10 months ago #40694 by jeyjey
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Frank --

Rhea, Tethys, (Saturn), Titan, Iapetus.

Looks like you didn't get Hyperion (it would be between Titan and Iapetus, a bit closer to Iapetus, and slightly lower than the line between the two).

However, I think you did get Enceladus. If you zoom in on the picture (quite a bit), you can just make out a brightening between Tethys and Saturn. (This might even be light from both Enceladus and Mimas, as they were nearly on top of each other at the time the shot was taken.)

Nice job!

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17 years 10 months ago #40724 by Matthew C
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Frank you beat me to it! i had, literally the EXACT pic! :D I deleted it by accident! :cry: Nice image, just love this 'different' type of astrophtography!

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