More fun than Christmas shopping too.So here is my first image for the day leading to Christmas. An old crusty view of Saturn from Pioneer 11 in 1979 from a distance of about 2.8 million miles. Ha!
This was from a spacecraft that flew past the planet, but I can take better images from my backyard through light pollution, a gunky atmosphere, and approximately 800,000 million miles.
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Nevertheless, the old golden photo of Saturn is absolutely charming. Thanks for that!
Yeah, gotta give them credit for flinging a spacecraft out there and getting close enough for a photo. They didn't have home computers, Images Plus, Photoshop, and all those nifty tools we have for our backyard observatories now. :-)
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