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Old 04-October-2005, 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ngc3314
Re stars - you can see them in the few Cassini images exposed long enough to show the dark sides of moons lit by Saturnshine. Examples are here, one of a whole series of Iapetus exposures so long that the background stars trailed into streaks, and this additional one of Iapetus, and so on (there's one of Janus that I can't find at the moment).
Notice that on both images the sunlit crescent of Iapetus is completely overexposed.
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