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Description Sedna was discovered from an image dated 2003-11-14 at coordinates 03 15 10.09 05 38 16.5. The 3 overexposed stars are apparent magnitude 13. The "bright star" near Sedna is apmag 14.9 and about the same magnitude as Pluto. (Wikisky image of this region)
The picture shows an area of the sky equal to the area covered by a pinhead held at arm's length. Sedna is too faint to be seen by all but the most powerful amateur telescopes.
Date 18 April 2005 (original upload date)
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Caltech animated gif of the Sedna discovery images (True source image using green circle from Caltech website)

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05568 (Samuel Oschin Telescope 2003-11-14. Rotated and flipped; using yellow arrows)
Author This is the discovery image of Sedna taken with the Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Schmidt Telescope (now called the Samuel Oschin Telescope). JPL public web sites (public sites ending with a jpl.nasa.gov address)
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The BBC has an image cropped from licensed image below. The original uploader claimed this as the source;

Larger version uploaded by Evercat 15:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

PNG version which is both smaller in filesize and lossless is at Sedna-photo.png, however, this JPG should be the one used for thumbnails in articles, as it produces a much smaller (in bytes) thumbnail.

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current11:44, 30 October 2005Thumbnail for version as of 11:44, 30 October 2005874 × 665 (199 KB)Bsmuc64ger~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Image of Sedna. Larger version uploaded by Evercat 15:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC) PNG version which is both smaller in filesize and lossless is at Image:Sedna-photo.png, however, this JPG should be the one used for thumbnails in articles, as it produces a much
02:33, 18 April 2005Thumbnail for version as of 02:33, 18 April 2005874 × 665 (199 KB)Smartech~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Image of Sedna from BBC web site ([http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3511678.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3511678.stm]); they claim it is a NASA image... Larger version uploaded by Evercat 15:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC) PNG v

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