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Saturn with four moons seen through an amateur telescope

by

Alan Friedman/Novapix

Reference

a-sat01-00020

Date

2007-03-29

Saturn with four moons in attendance captured on March 20 2007 with 10" Maksutov/Cassegrain. A fifth moon - Mimas - was in the field of view, but too dim to be recorded with this exposure. Clockwise from upper part of the image : Encelade, Dione, Rhea and Tethys.