Save for Earth, the entire solar system is lifeless, desolate and even a little spooky. Millions of square kilometers of heavenly real estate empty and exposed to the darkness of space while, in most cases, the dim light of our Sun barely lits the surface of most objects.
Nowhere is this scene of Phantasmagoria more present than in the seven remote moons surrounding gas giant Uranus.
Solar System Today was able to image in striking detail moons that were not clearly photographed by the space probes, such as Umbriel and tiny moonlet Puck.
MEADE 14” LX200, SBIG ST2K. Exposure time: 50 seconds in high resolution for moons and 10 seconds for Uranus with OIII filter.
Image development in CCDops, Maxim DL4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended