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Sun From Saturn?
MizarKey
post Feb 27 2005, 06:12 AM
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Could this be a shot of the Sun from Saturn, or just an unidentified moon?



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Bill Harris
post Feb 27 2005, 11:28 PM
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Doug is right; I was engaging in wishful thinking. My mental image of the Sun from Saturn is a very, very bright star, but much too bright for that image.

I have a similar photo through and 8" telescope of Mars (or Jupiter) passing through the Beehive star cluster in '92 or '93. The bright planet showed diffraction spikes and was in a starry background.

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- MizarKey   Sun From Saturn?   Feb 27 2005, 06:12 AM
- - Bill Harris   Hmmm, might be. It seems way too bright to be a m...   Feb 27 2005, 03:41 PM
- - djellison   No way is that the sun. The exposure required to s...   Feb 27 2005, 06:32 PM
- - TheChemist   Any idea why this object looks hexagonal ?   Feb 27 2005, 07:09 PM
- - Roby72   I suspect it looks hexagonal because within the wi...   Feb 27 2005, 08:01 PM
- - Bill Harris   Doug is right; I was engaging in wishful thinking....   Feb 27 2005, 11:28 PM

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