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Before the advent of telescopic photography, eight moons of Saturn were discovered by direct observation using optical telescopes.Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens using a 57-millimeter (2.2 in) objective lens [14] on a refracting telescope of his own design. [15]
Discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan was the first known moon of Saturn and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Earth's moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan orbits Saturn at 20 Saturn radii or 1,200,000 km above Saturn's apparent surface.
Saturn LVII (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 26 — Saturn LVIII: Eggther: S/2004 S 27 — Saturn LIX (unnamed moons of Saturn) S/2004 S 28 — — S/2004 S 29 — Saturn LX: Beli: S/2004 S 30 — Saturn LXI i: 12 December 2004 p: 8 October 2019 (unnamed moon of Saturn) S/2004 S 31 — — Gunnlod: S/2004 S 32 — Saturn LXII Thiazzi: S/2004 S ...
Explore all 63 of Saturn's verified moons, along with their names and discovery dates. Other moons await official confirmation of their discovery.
Telesto / t ə ˈ l ɛ s t oʊ / is a moon of Saturn.It was discovered by Smith, Reitsema, Larson and Fountain in 1980 from ground-based observations, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 13. [4]
Christiaan Huygens followed on from Galileo's discoveries by discovering Saturn's moon Titan and the shape of the rings of Saturn. [14] Giovanni Domenico Cassini later discovered four more moons of Saturn and the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. [15] The Sun photographed through a telescope with special solar filter.
Dione (/ d aɪ ˈ oʊ n i /), also designated Saturn IV, is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm 3 , Dione is composed of an icy mantle and crust overlying a silicate rocky core, with rock and water ice roughly equal in mass.
The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter 20 new moons were discovered around Saturn Skip to main content