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DescriptionSao VLT-FORS1 2002-09-03 annotated.gif
English: Animation of three 420-second exposures of Neptune's irregular moon Sao, imaged as a slow-moving 25th magnitude object by Brett J. Gladman et al. with the ESO's VLT-FORS1 imager on 3 September 2002. These images were taken as part of follow-up observations of Neptune's five irregular moons discovered by Gladman et al. in the month before (August 2002).
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Uploaded a work by Brett J. Gladman et al./European Southern Observatory from Raw images provided by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre's [http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cadcbin/ssos/ssosclf.pl?lang=en&object=Sao&search=bynameall&epoch1=2002&epoch2=2003&eellipse=&eunits=arcseconds&extres=no&xyres=no Solar System Object Image Search]. Observational Metadata from the ESO's Science Archive Facility: [http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/eso/eso_archive_main/query?instrument=&dp_cat=&tab_o...