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Description: Leda is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It has an apparent magnitude of 19.5. This is the 1974 discovery image of Leda (Jupiter XII) as photographed by Charles Kowal with the Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Schmidt Telescope (now called the Samuel Oschin Telescope).
Title: Leda2(moon)
Credit: http://www.seasky.org/solarsystem/sky3f6.html#Leda http://www.solarviews.com/cap/jup/leda.htm
Author: This image is not a Voyager 1 or Voyager 2 image since they were not launched until 1977 and the Voyagers were prone to tracking errors blurring long exposures.
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