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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

Speaking of Saturn photobombing pics of moons (see my earlier post today)... This video sequence, taken in 2007 by astronomer Jan Koet, shows the Moon moving in the sky—revealing giant Saturn, almost 1.5 billion km away. The video is at twice actual speed.

Dr. JB Vincent
@comet-toolbox.com

I love when such thing happens! When we were imaging asteroid Lutetia with the OSIRIS cameras on ESA's Rosetta, we also had a surprise appearance of Saturn in the background :D sci.esa.int/web/rosetta/...

sci.esa.intAsteroid (21) Lutetia with Saturn in background - Rosetta - Science PortalOne of the first images released after the Rosetta flyby of asteroid (21) Lutetia on 10 July 2010.At a distance of 36 000 km, the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this image catching the planet S...

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