Saturn and the Giant White Spot
This picture of Saturn and the Giant White Spot was obtained with the ESO New Technology Telescope on October 16, 1990 at UT 0 hrs 0 min. It is a 1 sec exposure through a 6 nm wide filter, centered in the blue spectral region at 468 nm. North is approximately up and East is to the left. The seeing conditions were mediocre (arcsecond), and the false-colour reproductions shown here have been subjected to computer processing by D. Baade at the ESO Headquarters, according to an advanced algoritm, developed by L. Lucy; this has resulted in a sharpening to about 0.4 arcseconds.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | eso9014c |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 9 November 1990 |
| Related releases: | eso9014 |
| Size: | 2917 x 4781 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Saturn |
| Type: | • Solar System : Planet : Type : Gas Giant • X - Solar System |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical B |
468 nm | New Technology Telescope |
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