Mimas circles Saturn at the edge of its outer rings. It has a crater that is always turned in our direction as Mimas perform its synchronous rotation around Saturn. The crater, on the leading edge of the moon, measures 130 kilometers. It is a challeging object to visualize even for the HMIR (Hidden Micro Image Retrieval) technique.
MEADE 14” LX200 Ritchey-Cretien Telescope on Equatorial mount and SBIG ST2K single shot color CCD Camera. Exposure time: 10 seconds in high resolution. Processing done in CCDops, Maxim DL5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5.
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