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Description: Animation of three images of Jupiter's irregular moon S/2003 J 2, taken by Brett Gladman with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope's MegaPrime CCD camera on 24 February 2003. Each image was taken approximately 20 minutes apart, showing the moon's motion relative to the faint background stars and galaxies. The raw image datasets used are 691365p, 691371p, and 691377p. The moon's location on those dates were given by MPEC 2003-E11, and can be viewed in the Aladin Sky Atlas.
Author: B. J. Gladman/Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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