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| Saturn |
| These images were taken with a Canon D60 digital SLR through an 8" Mak-Newt using a 4X TeleVue Powermate. A stack of 300 images at 1 second and IS0 100 were processed using Images Plus software. The above shot is composited with a 10 second ISO 100 background, to capture the moons, and the panels below are croppings from that image. |
| Tethys Tethys, consisting mainly of water ice, has a very low density and is dominated by the 400 km diameter impact crater Odysseus... almost 2/5 of this moon's size. |
| Enceladus With a surface dominated by ice, Enceladus has a very high albedo (level of reflectivity), the highest of any object in the solar system. |
| Dione Almost as dense as Titan, Dione is composed mainly of water ice, though thought to contain a considerable amount of denser material. |
| Rhea The second largest of the Saturn moons, Rhea is very similar in composition and albedo to Dione. |
| Titan The largest of Saturn's moons, Titan is shrouded with a thick atmosphere of nitrogen, argon, and methane along with trace amounts of more than a dozen other organic compounds. |
| Iapetus Saturn's third largest moon has strikingly different albedo levels between the leading and trailing hemispheres. |
| My earlier Saturn shots were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 995 digital camera, and may be seen on the preceeding page. |
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