Triple eclipse: Dione, Rhea Epimetheus

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Triple eclipse: Dione, Rhea Epimetheus

Post #1by julesstoop » 17.03.2005, 17:03

This happened two days ago and the raw pictures are now trickling in at
the Cassini site.

In celestia it looks like this:

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Edit: On closer inspection on the order of the raw images, it seems more like Cassini has just missed it.
Whatever. It will probably happen at least a fwe more times during the next years.
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Post #2by Matt McIrvin » 20.03.2005, 18:56

However, around the same time, Cassini did get some nice shots of Rhea, Dione, Mimas and the rings in the same frame. I made a rough color composite (moon positions taken from the blue-filter image; Mimas was out of frame for the red, so I duplicated the green-channel data).


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