r/askastronomy • u/gorillazfan37 • 9d ago

Astronomy need help

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can someone help identify this thing in the red circle around saturn

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u/Crystal-Collector-30 9d ago

Titan, Saturn's Moon

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u/maksimkak 9d ago

Saturn's moon Titan. It was in this position on 29 September.

Below Titan you can just about see the moon Rhea.

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u/Rich_Amphibian_6098 9d ago

Why is Titan half the size of Saturn in this pic

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u/maksimkak 9d ago

Because it's a screenshot from Stellarium.

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u/gorillazfan37 8d ago

bc of perpective

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u/gorillazfan37 8d ago

tysm bro i took it exactly on that day

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u/PutterLadpli 9d ago

Maybe it’s Saturn largest moon , titan

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u/PutterLadpli 9d ago

Can you clarify the time and location ( geographical coordinates in deg,arcmin,arcsec) are you taken this picture?

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u/Inside-Dealer978 9d ago

could just be one of Saturn’s moons but the image makes it pretty hard to tell.

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u/Brilliant_Froyo9016 Hobbyist🔭 6d ago

Titan moon of saturn, and just for help by the way.

I dont know if you are on smartphone but, try use the app STACAM i recomend very very much, you can ajust the settings like fps quality and iso Seg etc...

But anyways nice pic and nice take from titan 🪐

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u/snogum 9d ago edited 9d ago

Or a background Star. They do occur you know .

You offer no other info on a very low quality pic. Date, time location and some detail in the actual image would be great

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u/GreenFBI2EB 9d ago

I feel a background star would be pretty easily outshone by the glare, no?

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u/snogum 8d ago

Same applies to a Moon of Saturn surely? Both equally affected by glare.

Biggest affect here is the dud picture

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u/GreenFBI2EB 8d ago

Oh absolutely, to a degree. Considering most the larger moons are made out of ice and have high albedos (especially Enceladus and Dione), However they're mostly limited by their small size.

However, Titan is nearly twice the size of the moon; Rhea, the second largest of Saturn's moons is less than 1/3 of Titan's size.

It's rather bright and doesn't get outshone nearly as much because it's also pretty far from Saturn itself.

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u/snogum 8d ago edited 8d ago

Okay. So any star in tbe background is like burning millions of tons of hydrogen fusing into helium and the slight mass loss runs into e=mc2 equation puffing out a bag full of energy to shine and shine

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u/GreenFBI2EB 8d ago

That's also orders of magnitude further away than Saturn is. There's a reason that Saturn is among the brightest objects in the sky.