dance of tethys B&W

An animation of four frames taken over period of 45 minutes showing a transit of saturn's moon Tethys.

The tiny moon Enceladus is located just to the left of Tethys' shadow - can you see it? A color version can be seen here.

23 March 2008 Astro-Physics 10" mak/cassegrain at f30/ DMK 21BF04 camera/ image processing in Astro IIDC and Adobe Photoshop CS3

 

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