Saturn To Pull Celestial Houdini On August 11

[Shogun]

Saturn To Pull Celestial Houdini On August 11

ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 2009) — In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. But a vanishing pachyderm is nothing compared to the magnificent illusion to be performed by our solar system's own sixth rock from the sun on Aug. 11. On that day, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, the planet Saturn, with no help from either Jupiter or Uranus, will make its 170,000-mile-wide ring system disappear.




Get your telescopes out and take the kids to see something they won't get to see again until after they learn to drive.

 

[elvis]

How strong a telescope do you need to see Saturn's rings when they ARE visible?

 

[L.K.Eder]

Saturn To Pull Celestial Houdini On August 11

ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 2009) — In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. But a vanishing pachyderm is nothing compared to the magnificent illusion to be performed by our solar system's own sixth rock from the sun on Aug. 11. On that day, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, the planet Saturn, with no help from either Jupiter or Uranus, will make its 170,000-mile-wide ring system disappear.




Get your telescopes out and take the kids to see something they won't get to see again until after they learn to drive.

cool thing, but unfortunately

But fair warning for those miserly types armed with their own telescopes and determined to get a free celestial magic show. This particular conjuring of the ring-plane crossing illusion will have an audience of one.

"Saturn's orbit has brought it so close to the sun that it is extremely difficult to see even with the best of telescopes," said Spilker. "Fortunately, we have Cassini in the front row."

 

[concept]

Obviously caused by global warming. Those Satun, SUV-driving fucktards. WHat are thinking?

 

[L.K.Eder]

How strong a telescope do you need to see Saturn's rings when they ARE visible?

you can kind of suspect the oval shape with a "normal" binocular (5x to 8x). the rings you can see with a 30x telescope. probably less.

 

[elvis]

How strong a telescope do you need to see Saturn's rings when they ARE visible?

you can kind of suspect the oval shape with a "normal" binocular (5x to 8x). the rings you can see with a 30x telescope. probably less.

hard to keep the binoculars still. LOL. i have a telescope that is about 16x.

 

[L.K.Eder]

How strong a telescope do you need to see Saturn's rings when they ARE visible?

you can kind of suspect the oval shape with a "normal" binocular (5x to 8x). the rings you can see with a 30x telescope. probably less.

hard to keep the binoculars still. LOL. i have a telescope that is about 16x.

you have a 16x telescope and you have not yet tried to see the rings?

a 5x to 8x and more expensive 10x (probably more by now) binoculars are no problem to hold still.