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Originally Posted by tempestwizz
As a relative newbie to planetary photography, but have dabbled a little into deeper space, I'm a little intrigued as to why Titan (and Diane)appear(s) so dark against Saturn, given they are both/all illuminated by the same source. Is this an issue of relative contrast or am I missing something?
Excellent result nevertheless.
BC
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G'day BC. The difference is the albedo, and in this case I was wrong about Dione, what we see in the image here is it's shadow, not Dione itself. The large dark spot is titan as it's albedo is lower than Saturn.
cheers, Bird