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Posted by: dilo Sep 24 2005, 07:18 AM

Breathtaking Dione+Ring+Saturn images (RGB filters the wide angle one, false color R+CL+G the close up):

Posted by: Toma B Sep 24 2005, 08:42 AM

Beautiful!!!

Just Beautifull!!!!

Posted by: dilo Sep 24 2005, 09:24 AM

Thanks, Toma.
I'm not sure about last animation frame timing, because Enceladus eclipse shouldn't be total and, based also on rings aspect, it was taken very later...

Posted by: edstrick Sep 24 2005, 10:04 AM

That's not Enceladus.. it's Tethys -- see Ithaca chasma and the craters. As Cassini gets closer, Dione's quite a bit closer to the spacecraft.

and yes, that last pic is out of sequence.

Posted by: edstrick Sep 24 2005, 10:12 AM

quick and dirty contrast stretch and sharpening. Tethys behind Dione.

Posted by: elakdawalla Sep 24 2005, 03:14 PM

There is also a smaller moon passing in front of the rings  ..it is Prometheus?

Posted by: volcanopele Sep 24 2005, 11:13 PM

For the NAC view of Dione against Saturn, the BL1 frame image is here:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS14/N00039942.jpg

Posted by: dilo Sep 25 2005, 06:49 AM

Thanks, Jason. So this is the best true color match with previous wide-angle (maybe someone can obtain better results...):

Posted by: mike Sep 25 2005, 09:09 AM

Wow. Looking at an image like that, I get some vague notion of how huge Saturn really is. And the near-vacuum of space always makes for beautifully crystal clear views.

It also makes a good desktop image.

Posted by: ilbasso Sep 28 2005, 02:11 PM

These are the kinds of images that should be on the front page of every newspaper in the world, instead of pictures of human suffering or human idiocy.

Posted by: ljk4-1 Jan 28 2006, 02:15 AM

Speaking of occultations, does anyone know if anyone on the Cassini team or any professional astronomers working with them imaged the occultation of a faint star by Saturn on January 25?

http://www.iota-es.de/satocc_2006.html

SATURN OCCULTS A FAINT STAR

For observers in Europe, Africa, and Asia, an 8.2-magnitude star (SAO
98054) will be occulted by (passes behind) Saturn's ring system starting
at about 18:45 Universal Time January 25th. The star reappears out from
behind the planet itself around 20:55 UT.

http://www.popastro.com/sections/occ/by_cancri.htm

Just wondering if anyone had coordinated some kind of project to study the rings as the star went behind them and the ring data from Cassini. I did not see a mention of such a project in the latest status report, nor anything on the ALPO Saturn Section Web site:

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/sat.html

One amateur image of the event from the net so far:

http://www.popastro.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1920

Posted by: pat Feb 1 2006, 03:06 PM

Speaking of occultations, does anyone know if anyone on the Cassini team or any professional astronomers working with them imaged the occultation of a faint star by Saturn on January 25? 

http://www.iota-es.de/satocc_2006.html

SATURN OCCULTS A FAINT STAR

For observers in Europe, Africa, and Asia, an 8.2-magnitude star (SAO
98054) will be occulted by (passes behind) Saturn's ring system starting
at about 18:45 Universal Time January 25th. The star reappears out from
behind the planet itself around 20:55 UT.

http://www.popastro.com/sections/occ/by_cancri.htm

Just wondering if anyone had coordinated some kind of project to study the rings as the star went behind them and the ring data from Cassini.  I did not see a mention of such a project in the latest status report, nor anything on the ALPO Saturn Section Web site:

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/alpo/sat.html

One amateur image of the event from the net so far:

http://www.popastro.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1920

Posted by: Rob Pinnegar Feb 1 2006, 04:37 PM

and yes, that last pic is out of sequence.