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MargaritaMc wrote:

Beyond wrote:

MargaritaMc wrote:Is anyone familiar with SLOOH?

It's a private organization that anyone can join to study space. They have 3-telescopes, the biggest one being on a mountain near you, Margarita. Here's the url for their website.http://events.slooh.com/. You should be able to get anything you want to know there, including how to join, IF you're so inclined. I noticed the site has changed a little since the last time i was there.

Thank you, Beyond. I did try to stay awake till the live broadcast, which began at 2:30 a.m our time, but I couldn't manage it. This old lady just can NOT do without sleep...

There is recorded version on the Slooh page (and YouTube?) but I think the live version would have had one screen with a continual view of Saturn, whereas the recording is mostly people talking.

And, yes! It was from a telescope near me! And, to my surprise, the presenter of the event was speaking from Somerset in England.

Margarita

LJK wrote:Is the small black dot in the southern hemisphere center left a shadow of one of Saturn's moons cast by the Sun?
LK

Beyond wrote:

MargaritaMc wrote:Is anyone familiar with SLOOH?

It's a private organization that anyone can join to study space. They have 3-telescopes, the biggest one being on a mountain near you, Margarita. Here's the url for their website.http://events.slooh.com/. You should be able to get anything you want to know there, including how to join, IF you're so inclined. I noticed the site has changed a little since the last time i was there.

MargaritaMc wrote:Is anyone familiar with SLOOH?

MargaritaMc wrote:

neufer wrote:

APOD Robot wrote: A Raging Storm System on Saturn

... After raging for over six months, the iconic storm circled the entire planet and then tried to absorb its own tail -- which surprisingly caused it to fade away.

More a ouroborus than a scorpion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros wrote:
<<The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus,
is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.>>

neufer wrote:

APOD Robot wrote: A Raging Storm System on Saturn

... After raging for over six months, the iconic storm circled the entire planet and then tried to absorb its own tail -- which surprisingly caused it to fade away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
The Ouroboros or Uroborus[a] is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished.

APOD Robot wrote: A Raging Storm System on Saturn

Explanation: It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. First seen in late 2010, the above cloud formation in the northern hemisphere of Saturn started larger than the Earth and soon spread completely around the planet... After raging for over six months, the iconic storm circled the entire planet and then tried to absorb its own tail -- which surprisingly caused it to fade away.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_scorpion_accidentally_kill_itself wrote:
Scorpions cannot accidentally kill themselves. Their venom has no effect on the scorpion or any other scorpion of the same family. The belief that scorpions sting themselves to death to commit suicide when confronted by fire, or other life threatening situations is a myth and completely false. The misconception may have been founded from the way in which scorpions react to intense heat. As scorpions are cold blooded animals (poikilotherms), when they are exposed to intense heat, their metabolic process malfunction, causing the scorpion to spasm wildly. This can appear as if the scorpion is stinging itself. It is also untrue that alcohol will cause scorpions to sting themselves to death.

MargaritaMc wrote:On the URL above it says that it has a live broadcast of Saturn on the 28th April, which, of course, culminates at about midnight around now. I couldn't see how to get more information, but, oddly, a count down timer makes it look as tho it is happening TODAY, not tomorrow.

Slooh wrote:Slooh’s coverage will begin on Sunday, April 28th, starting at 6:30 p.m. PDT / 9:30 p.m. EDT / 01:30 UTC (April 29th), - additional times here:

Chris Peterson wrote: image contrast is almost always stretched so that the lightest regions are displayed as white, and the darkest as black.

LJK wrote:Is the small black dot in the southern hemisphere center left a shadow of one of Saturn's moons cast by the Sun?
LK

donalgary wrote:I think of Saturn's rings as being mostly empty space -- that is a satellite could fly through them with only a relatively small chance of being hit by anything. So why do they cast such a dense shadow?