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The observers were David Jewitt and Paul Kalas; the image was obtained with the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope.
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A deeper display of the same image shows
that E-ring stretching almost to the edge of the image. The E-ring can be seen
extending out to about 7 Saturn radii.
The observers were David Jewitt and Paul Kalas; the image was obtained with the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope.
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A 20 second R-band exposure,
taken 90 minutes later, may also be viewed. This image has been processed to
remove circularly symmetric scattered light around the occulting disk - it
shows the inner A-ring more clearly, and also shows the E-ring extending
outward to about 65 arcseconds from the center of Saturn. A faint satellite is
visible between Tethys and Dione.
The observers were David Jewitt and Paul Kalas; the image was obtained with the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope.
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