saturn with five moons

Greetings!

On Monday night there was a fine grouping of five of saturn's moons close enough to the planet that I could fit them all on the tiny chip of my webcam. Two different exposures were combined to include Mimas (mag 12.9) and brilliant saturn in the same image.

Enceladus is relatively easy in my 10" scope on steady transparent nights - but I have yet to see Mimas in the eyepiece.

Additional details on the image are posted to the CCD imaging/solar system forum.

cheers!
Alan Friedman

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Alan,

Another great image of Saturn and it's satellites.You have captured impressive detail over the globe and rings. Mimas (12.9m) requires at least 10 inches of aperture (as you have), but the glare of the planet (especially the rings) makes it hard to detect. Mimas is much easier to detect when the rings are edge-on (as they will be in 2007). I look forward to your future images.

Carlos