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Here is an old rendering of my space art I restored recently, spawned by the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft(s) in the early 1980s. This is of Saturn from its icy moon of Rhea. We are in a polar location on the satellite and some 327,600 miles from the giant ringed world - and over 900 million miles from the Sun. The temperature in direct sunlight here is -174 C, and down to -220 C in the shade, and this moon revolves about Saturn once every 4.52 days. Light intensity is 1/98th as bright here as on Earth, but at least there are no clouds! Can you spot this moon through your telescope?

Description
Here is an old rendering of my space art I restored recently, spawned by the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft(s) in the early 1980s. This is of Saturn from its icy moon of Rhea. We are in a polar location on the satellite and some 327,600 miles from the giant ringed world - and over 900 million miles from the Sun. The temperature in direct sunlight here is -174 C, and down to -220 C in the shade, and this moon revolves about Saturn once every 4.52 days. Light intensity is 1/98th as bright here as on Earth, but at least there are no clouds! Can you spot this moon through your telescope?