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Old 15-04-2009, 04:56 PM
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A lovely image Trevor; talk about casting a giant shadow! The scale of these events is quite mind boggling, given the size of Saturn, its ring system and the orbits of its moons.

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Dennis
Thanks Dennis, yes it all is pretty amazing, Saturn 120,000 km diameter and at a distance of about 1.4 billion km and to see the relative size of Titan compared to the diameter of the shadow that it throws on Saturn. To be able to see much detail of this from Earth with amateur equipment is amazing, what would Galileo have made of it, I wonder.

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