Thanks...I'd love to see your images!
I shot this image of M-42 earlier this year. This is was series of approximately 30x105second exposures at prime focus, at ISO800 using CLS filtering.
Posted on 12/18/2009 12:24:46 PM PST by Maceman
The rings would preclude the use of a lot of orbits over the equator and orbits that intersect the ring. The ring shadow would have profound climatic effects.
Neat! Thanks!
The earth, at one time, did have a ring and gravity pulled it into what we call the moon now.
Don't give 'em any ideas!
Thanks...I'd love to see your images!
I shot this image of M-42 earlier this year. This is was series of approximately 30x105second exposures at prime focus, at ISO800 using CLS filtering.
good job!
The moon is the ring
Thanks
My appreciation for the aesthetic beauty of rings around the earth is offset by my concerns of deleterious effects on satellite orbits and equatorial shadows effecting growing seasons.
The rings around Saturn are one of the reasons Saturn has no GPS or satellite TV and cannot grow bananas ...
COOL! Thanks for sharing!
Never got around to taking pics. At one astronomy night for the local elementary school I was focused in on Saturn. One woman looked through the eye piece then went to the front of the scope and looked in. I asked her what she was looking for and she said “the photo hanging in front”. She was really thought it was a trick.
I saw at least one of their images and the moon was still there with the ring.
bfl
Beautiful
Was the other day imagining with my 13 year old son what life on this planet would be like if a daily cycle from sunrise to sunset took one second. What effect might *that* have on culture, etc.? We calculated how many times the sun has risen and set on our lives through the years, and then figured how long it would take to watch our lives if each day passed in one second.
Then we considered what it would be like to take one person from the date of birth to end of life and photograph them in the same place with the same light under the same conditions once every day, and then play back the photos in typical time lapse fashion at various speeds. As I peruse this idea further, one could start with a birth “coffin”, taking each picture with the lid closed, and then schedule daily photos after the subject was dead and buried. Would certainly be a strange life for the volunteer, but would make for interesting science, literature, and film at the same time.
Now we can add the rings of Saturn in for good measure.
lol...too funny..
I never tire of seeing Saturn...It’s an amazing sight when conditions are really good.
Thanks.
Very cool. Thanks.
Slings, Check this out.
I wonder how the sun would look through the rings--would it be blotted out like it is by the moon during a total eclipse, or would some of the light get through the rings so that the sun would look speckled?
You may want to see your doctor ... sounds serious.
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