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Originally Posted by Quark
Hi Steve,
The bright spot that Bird imaged on Jan 5th, which has to be a moon, appeared to throw a definite shadow that seemed clearly separated from the bright spot and it's movement seems well synchronized with the bright spot or moon. Admittedly Bird has more image scale, 2 x against 5 x.
Cheers
Trevor
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Trevor, one more random thought - with Saturn at quadrature any moon shadow will be well separated from the moon's image, ie separated by half the planet diameter or more given the relative positions of the sun and earth.
So any moon transit should have a shadow that's a long way from the moon.
regards, Bird