The Daily Populous Tuesday September 24th, 2024 day edition
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ajamesmccarthy on September 23rd, 2024 at 19:35 UTC »

This is downized a tiny bit just for the sake of remaining uploadable to reddit. You can see it's pretty detailed to the point where you can see the weather bands on Saturn and the individual moons in this video here.

The photo was captured using a 14" telescope, and is actually a mosaic, as the telescope was so zoomed in on the planet you can't see much of the moon otherwise. The moon is a mosaic of 107 panels and about 217,000 individual image (each panel was made from about 2k images to improve fidelity)

The volcano was Mauna Kea, which is actually technically the tallest mountain in the world when measured from the base!

Ribbitor123 on September 23rd, 2024 at 19:45 UTC »

Truly impressive - this is why I still browse Reddit!

omahaknight71 on September 23rd, 2024 at 20:56 UTC »

Incredible picture.

These are the kind of posts I like to see in r/pics.