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by 3uu2
Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:03 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturn At Equinox (2009 Sep 30)
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Re: Saturn At Equinox (Sept 30 2009)

I find this magnificent composite photograph extremely difficult to interpret. I presume that the ring system and the accompanying shepherd moonlets are coplanar, so that at equinox they contribute a single dark line of shadow on the upper Saturnian cloud layer. That's correct. Underneath what I in...