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Hubble Just Took an Astonishingly Detailed Image of Saturn
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It really is. Difficult to imagine what's really out there.
NorthStar
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I'd like to go surfing those rings. :safe::inconspicuous:
apdoc2004
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C'mon Joe -- you could have done better with your camera with a zoom lens from your backyard!
On a serious note, the image in incredible. showed it to my son who is really into astronomy.
Thanks for posting.
Anshul
On a serious note, the image in incredible. showed it to my son who is really into astronomy.
Thanks for posting.
Anshul
Big B
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Great Stuff
RDSChicago
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What a cool planet! Definitely the coolest looking one. Looks like Earth using a hoola-hoop! They must be in great shape on that planet. Seriously though, one of the greatest planetary, celestial photos I've ever seen.
UltraFast69
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That is simply amazing, thanks for sharing!
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still-one
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Great photo. I wonder if and how much of a time lapse photo it "might" be?
I think the picture with some of Saturn's moon circled indicates that this is a composite of three photos taken with three specific blue, green and red filters using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WCF3). Since Saturn is quite bright, particularly through the Hubble, the exposure time is probably very short.
Larry
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Hubble’s detailed view of Saturn is a great reminder of how much visual information can reveal when an image is captured and presented clearly. Saturn is also one of the planets used in Snapchat’s Friend Solar System, where each planet represents a friendship rank.
It makes me want to go and listen to Holst. At the end of Saturn there are some pedal tones going ME, RE, DO, (E,D,C in this case) and I think it's like 20, 18, 16 Hz. I have it on Telarc and the 20 Hz is audible, the others seem more feel-able to me, but they're there and they shake the china in the cabinets 30 feet around the corner in the kitchen..