They incorporate buttons to flip the view to match your telescope’s optics. The Saturn Moons and Gas Giants apps for iOS are designed to provide realistic views of the planet and moons at any time you choose. If the app time is set to Now, it will match what you see in your telescope, except for any image inverting or mirroring your telescope’s optics might introduce. To identify the moons using a sky-charting app like SkySafari 5, Star Walk or Stellarium Mobile, center Saturn and zoom in until you see the moons displayed. This orange-brown target shines with a magnitude between 8.2 and 9.0 and orbits Saturn every 15 days. A 6-inch or larger telescope may show the color of the dense yellow-orange clouds on this large 8th-magnitude moon,
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You can easily see Titan through a backyard telescope, plus three or four of the next largest, depending on the telescope’s aperture.Įven though Titan is far away, it’s large size means it’s a fairly bright and easy telescope target. Saturn also hosts six more good-size moons and dozens of house-size moonlets. Its biggest moon, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury (but much lighter, due to its high ice content). Saturn has over 80 known moons, and 53 of them are officially named. For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of Saturn and its family of icy moonstaking us to astounding worlds where methane rivers run to a methane sea and where jets of ice and gas are blasting material into space from a liquid water ocean that might harbor the ingredients for life.
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