I know you're just having fun, but: the delay is not compute time. It's about using all the other data available to get the geometry and photometry correct. T

I know you're just having fun, but: the delay is not compute time. It's about using all the other data available to get the geometry and photometry correct. The ephemeris (i.e., spacecraft and target location) and pointing will only be known after the spacecraft trajectory is analyzed after the fact. Sometimes they will make quick-look images for sanity checks or quick analyses for planning future activities. But for science purposes, they would need more, even to publish one image with correct geometry metadata. (If Cassini science was time-critical, they would develop a "near-real-time" or NRT version of data products for faster distribution, usually within minutes-to-hours - which would then be supplemented with a definitive product later on. Here's an example of a time-critical NRT product: https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nrt https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nrt) The geometry information is even more critical if they are mosaicking images together.