Another pair before I go to bed

Speaking of Dione, Cassini also just replicated a Voyager shot I remember seeing here and there, of Dione against the disc of Saturn:

( Almost-true color and pants-on-fire color )

Here's something I learned while making the preceding pictures

The human visual system is much more forgiving of red and blue fringes on opposite margins of an object than of green, magenta, or yellow ones.

Part of this is just that the cones aren't as sensitive to red and blue light as to yellow or green light. But I think a lot of it is that people have some built-in allowance for chromatic aberration.

Titan's atmosphere, backlit

Cassini spent a lot of time during the latest flyby taking pictures of the backlit atmosphere of Titan. Here's a color composite I made from some of the full-disk images:

( pretty thing )

Update: See also this close-up, with haze shown in UV. JPL seems to be catching up to me in the production of pretty composite pictures from the past few days, and has released a flurry of them on the press images page.

North pole storms

I'm perversely proud of the fact that I did my amateur image processing magic on all those pretty pictures from Cassini at Saturn and not once included the rings. Well, here's a picture that still does not include the rings. But it does include their shadows:

( shadows and storms )