Wow, that was very interesting! Thanx!
Totally cool!
What about with rings like Uranus?
Way cool. Thanks for posting.
The video mentioned the light reflected by the rings, but didn’t mention the shadows cast - or did I miss it?
That was beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
We could not have such a ring with our moon I think. The moon’s gravity would pull it apart.
Of course, the moon could have broken up into a ring. That would be interesting.
Nice. Thanks Maceman. Certainly a surreal presentation wasn’t it.
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Thanks
Very cool!
I took this shot of Saturn a while back from our back yard observatory when it's rings were more visible from earth...A new camera imagining system this coming summer should provide better for improved planetary imaging.
This was taken with a LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain, using eyepiece projection with LP CLS filters...Canon 40D-ISO 800 1.4 sec exposure...(Series of 10x1.4sec) calibrated, aligned and stacked in DSS.
Very cool ping. Watch the you-tube beeber.
Beautiful.
Let’s get started!
Start blasting millions of metric tons of debris into the sky RIGHT NOW!!!
Rings look awesome. Can we trade in our moon for rings? I thought of having both a moon and rings, but that might be too much bling.
I enjoyed the concept and the music, tres magnifique...
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.
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 ...
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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.
Very cool. Thanks.
Slings, Check this out.