I don't understand..
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- Witt0
you have to consider that telescopes work like zoom in a lenses. if you close up on a distant feature (say a mountain top) and there's a tree between you you'll see a enourmous tree and a big summit as well.
- Nairn0
lovely, baskerville! thanks for that - but even so, do you see where I'm coming from? even at that scale, it's still pretty big..
..what I think I mean is that the solar system's not really as unmanagably big as I thought it was.
- Mimio0
Nice work Baskerville.
- Baskerville0
the moon is huge in that picture.
if you extrapolate the curve of the moon in that photo it looks like this:
imagine the moon is as small as you see it with the naked eye, saturn would be tiny.
Quite a few planets are viewable in the night sky with a telecsope. To the naked eye they look like bright starts.
I was watching the sky at night with patrick moore recently and apparently saturns rings will only be visible for a few more months then they will tilt out of view (so we are seeing the from side on) for a while.
- Nairn0
Clearly it's from a telescope, what I mean is with Saturn at that size in-picture, I'd expect the moon to be a lot larger - the horizon a lot flatter. The inference from that image is that Saturn should appear as more than a bright dot in the night sky - Jupiter even more so, with it being larger and nearer - they should be nigh-on discernible, but this is clearly not the case - so .. well, I don't get it.
- letters20
its called a telescope – and its very powerful!
letters2
(Mar 16 07, 08:39)Silly mortal, wizards don't use telescopes.
k0na_an0k
(Mar 16 07, 08:44)it was Trix, I relize that now
- k0na_an0k0
its called a telescope – and its very powerful!
letters2
(Mar 16 07, 08:39)Silly mortal, wizards don't use telescopes.
- Witt0
it's very good telescope. i went to a show last month and in a 30cm disk lense telescope saturn appeared (rings and all) like having 5mm. i think a better telescope focused on saturn with the moon in between would give you that image. the colours are suspicious though.
- letters20
its called a telescope – and its very powerful!
- harlequino0
Pipe down denizen!
That does sound really cool.
k0na_an0k
(Mar 16 07, 08:30)Oh you will join us down here in denizen-land.
*wrings hands meacingly
*bides time
- Bottlerocket0
The photograph was probably taken through a telescope.
- k0na_an0k0
Pipe down denizen!
That does sound really cool.
- harlequino0
"The March 3rd total lunar eclipse was widely viewed by denizens of planet Earth"
I like being thought of as a "denizen."
- k0na_an0k0
Wizardry
- Nairn
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod…
I just don't get it. How does that work? Does this mean, if I'm on the moon, Saturn looms about this large in the sky? But that's clearly not the case.. so how does this work?