Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble

[tblaxland]

An awesome video from Hubble from Feb 24:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/12/video/

Available in a narrated version with labels, and a much smaller vanilla version (the way nature intended ).

 

[dougkeenan]

What a great photo! The event seems to have happened about 12:00-13:00 UT on 24 Feb 09 (~MJD 54886.5). I back-timed an approach from Earth then staged a high speed pass of the system to produce these shots. Seems I'm a little off-plane but the angle is still neat.

 

[tblaxland]

Nice shots. The empherides I have in Celestia must be a little out because this is the closest I could get (attached). Stellarium gave similar results but the rendering is not as nice.

 

[dougkeenan]

You got a shadow out of yours - very good!