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Scia Wed Jul 7 20:38:30 2010 No.1353838 [Reply] [Original]

Ask a astronomer autodidact anything(preferably about astronomy)
pic related its my shot of saturn

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:43:30 2010 No.1353864 Is there really a hexagon on saturn

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:43:30 2010 No.1353866 >>1353862 http://www.telescopes.com/telescopes/dobsonian-telescopes/zhumellz8deluxedobsonianreflectortelescope .cfm

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:43:30 2010 No.1353862 >>1353838 What telescope did you use to get that picture?

>>	pascal !n5Z3VuZapw Wed Jul 7 20:44:30 2010 No.1353868 Is hidalgo awesome?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:44:30 2010 No.1353871 Why is saturns ring a perfect ring? (All of them things are on the same orbit with a different radius to saturn)

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:45:30 2010 No.1353878 >>1353864 Never heard about that but I found these http://news.discovery.com/space/saturn-hexagon-mystifies-scientists.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/saturn-hexagon/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/saturn-hexagon/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:45:30 2010 No.1353885 can you get me a pitcher of mars

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:46:30 2010 No.1353892 File: 43 KB, 1024x768, mars4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1353885 Took it myself

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:48:30 2010 No.1353900 >>1353892 it has color :3

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:48:30 2010 No.1353903 >>1353900 Yes that was my by far best shot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:50:30 2010 No.1353915 got a good looking jupiter?

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:50:30 2010 No.1353918 File: 269 KB, 903x1023, Moon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I also took a picture of the moon the view is the best when its in either 1st or 3rd quarter phase

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:51:30 2010 No.1353931 >>1353915 Were i live i have to stay up to 3 AM to be able to see it I did it a couple of nights ago but i couldn't find my camera :(

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:53:30 2010 No.1353944 Why is an astronomer's picture of Saturn so much shittier than my amateur dad's tabletop telescope images?

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:54:30 2010 No.1353949 >>1353868 No mimas is

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:54:30 2010 No.1353953 >>1353931 boo :(. When is the next time mars and earth will be at ~there closest points. as in when is it ~the shortest distance between.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:55:30 2010 No.1353958 File: 60 KB, 465x620, 1275851407835.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1353838 >astronomer autodidact How do I solve the two body problem? Ie what is the "trick" that physicist/astronomers use to make the problem solvable?

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 20:56:30 2010 No.1353962 >>1353944 I only have a dobsonian they can't track anything i cant do long exposure times and my scope is only 8"" is apature and i have no camera mount i have to hold my camera up to the eyepiece

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 20:59:30 2010 No.1353987 WUTS MYE HOROSKOPE??/ I AM LIBRA!

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 21:00:30 2010 No.1353990 >> 1353953 you mean opposition I have no clue but the last one was last january also im kinda new to astronomy

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 21:00:30 2010 No.1353994 >>1353987 astrology is not science move along

>>	rec & play !!ZeLOSlAhY6W Wed Jul 7 21:01:30 2010 No.1354000 >>1353958 Reduce to two one-body problems. Are you sure you don't mean to ask about 3-or-more-body problems?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 21:04:30 2010 No.1354015 >>1353987 For the record, astrology is no longer up to date. (the constellation you were born under is probably different)

>>	Scia Wed Jul 7 21:09:30 2010 No.1354045 bump