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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Saturn _ Stars looking from the south of Enceladus

Posted by: Raoul Dec 16 2008, 09:05 PM

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA10526_modest.jpg
(Is it possible to show the picture?)

In our astronomy club at Gembloux, we tried to figure out which stars we can see in the picture...Cassini was looking from below Enceladus, so they must be familiar to us living in the northern hemisphere...I thought of Cassiopeia, but maybe not.

Posted by: volcanopele Dec 16 2008, 09:28 PM

Enceladus was in Ursa Minor at the time. The brightest star in the scene is in the lower right corner, the 5.15 mag. star HIP 74605/HD 136064. Here is the scene in Celestia: