Waving from England

Telescopes, telephone and tablets at the ready, a group of amateur astronomers gathers under twilight skies to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. Their gathering in the town of Kendal in England's Cumbria district was one of many international celebrations as Earth was imaged from deep space by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
July 19, 2013
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Telescopes, telephone and tablets at the ready, a group of amateur astronomers gathers under twilight skies to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. Their gathering in the town of Kendal in England's Cumbria district was one of many international celebrations as Earth was imaged from deep space by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Courtesy of S. White/Eddington Astronomical Society of Kendal