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Description: Animation of three discovery images of Saturn's irregular moon Mundilfari (S/2000 S 9; circled), taken by the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on 23 September 2000. Each image was taken approximately 90 minutes apart, showing the moon's motion relative to the background stars and galaxies. The vertical streak of light is a diffraction spike from a nearby bright star at magnitude 9.4. The raw image datasets used are 550466p, 550476p, and 550488p. For comparison, the star field in these images can be viewed at the CDS's Aladin star atlas.
Author: Brett Gladman/Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
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