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| Saturn's Moons |
| In Of the many
moon's orbiting Saturn, several are visible in average size backyard
telescopes. However, because of the enormous brightness difference between
some of the closer moons and the planet itself, imaging them is not so easy. Shown below are 8 moons, seven of which are quite close to the planet itself, but you will have to look right at the bottom left to find Phoebe, amazingly in orbit around Saturn at a distance of 12.9 million kilometres. There is a moon even closer to Saturn than those shown below, namely Mimas, but due to it's closeness to the planet and brightness differences, it was not possible to show this moon in this image. |
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| Date/Location: | Corringham 23 March, 2005 |
| Equipment: | 5" TMB F6 refractor pn AP900 mount |
| Camera/Exposure: | ST2000XM ccd camera |
| 10 x 2 secs, 10 x 20 secs, 5 x 60 secs | |
| Notes: | Images were layered in Photoshop to show the moons closest to the planet |
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