I don't understand..
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- k0na_an0k0
Wizardry
- 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
Pipe down denizen!
That does sound really cool.
- Bottlerocket0
The photograph was probably taken through a telescope.
- 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
- letters20
its called a telescope – and its very powerful!
- 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.
- k0na_an0k0
its called a telescope – and its very powerful!
letters2
(Mar 16 07, 08:39)Silly mortal, wizards don't use telescopes.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Mimio0
Nice work Baskerville.
- 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.
- 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.