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Not the Sun, but Aldebaran!
Caption NASA originale:"Cassini took a series of images on Sept. 9, 2006 as it watched the bright red giant star Aldebaran slip behind Saturn's Rings. 
This type of observation is known as a "stellar occultation" and uses a star whose brightness is well known. As Cassini watches the rings pass in front, the star's light fluctuates, providing information about the concentrations of ring particles within the various radial features in the Rings. 
Here, Cassini watches the star through the part of the Rings masked by Saturn's shadow. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 20° below the Ring-Plane. Bright Aldebaran is over exposed, creating thin vertical lines ("effetto goccia") on its image. 

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2006 at a distance of approx. 351.000 Km (such as about 218.000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is 2 Km (a little more than 1 mile) per pixel".
Parole chiave: Aldebaran

Not the Sun, but Aldebaran!

Caption NASA originale:"Cassini took a series of images on Sept. 9, 2006 as it watched the bright red giant star Aldebaran slip behind Saturn's Rings.
This type of observation is known as a "stellar occultation" and uses a star whose brightness is well known. As Cassini watches the rings pass in front, the star's light fluctuates, providing information about the concentrations of ring particles within the various radial features in the Rings.
Here, Cassini watches the star through the part of the Rings masked by Saturn's shadow. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 20° below the Ring-Plane. Bright Aldebaran is over exposed, creating thin vertical lines ("effetto goccia") on its image.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2006 at a distance of approx. 351.000 Km (such as about 218.000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale on the sky at the distance of Saturn is 2 Km (a little more than 1 mile) per pixel".

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Nome del file:The Rings-PIA08287.jpg
Nome album:Saturn: the "Ringed Beauty" and His Moons
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Parole chiave:Aldebaran
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