Starship Asterisk*

I selected cropped frames from the sequence including the spotted crater here:

I've long been interested in Saturn's mostly hidden backlit rings, now well seen by Cassini and a recent photo: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14934.html I tried to digitally compare to front side rings, using the rings from this image: Frontside Hubble: March 22, 2004 http:...

Composite: from Minneapolis, MN, F36, 1/8000s 200mm telephoto

Here's a comparison of my photos from 2004 and 2012, poor quality, but shows how Venus has almost exactly return to the same position exactly 8 years later!