Starship Asterisk*

hey harry,
we should be able to see it to the East (directly east for us in hobart, a little south of east for you, i think) at about midnight friday and saturday night ~ 20 deg above horizon

it will be reasonably faint. Just visible with your eyes, recommend binoculars

Aye a few more frames would have been nice... I guess they are all taken at the same time of day and it is seasonal variation we are seeing in the shadows ?

thats pretty neat!
wonder if there would be licensing issues ?

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like that for example. easy typo to make

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060508.html

I enjoyed this crazy movie of Huygens' decent.
If anyone knows of a better quality version please let me know!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &q=huygens

mm looks very scratch like to me...
anyone here know if its possible to scratch digital images? :p

thanks BMAONE23, do you know if there is a southern hemisphere version ? from that picture I would *expect* to have to look very northwards to see it

hi aqua, thanks for the tip, I dont know if I can see M57 from here I'll have to ask some friends who know what they're doing

I'm hoping to catch this comet as it passes us by, but I don't even know if I'll be able to see it from where I am, let alone where to point my telescope. can anyone give me some hints ? =)

^ excellent news thankyou!

Not much different I expect, at least in the visible spectrum, though probably far less stars visible at night.

i like these photos where they use the moon's reflection - clever =D
is the colour of the star meant to be accurate? would all super novae appear from earth to be the same colour?

reminds me of the comet from the chronicles of riddick

I know the PLANET microlensing group use this crazy thing called the telephone but the logging of data and mid to long term planning is all online

i guess that since the group is relatively small (5 observatories, maybe?) they can get away with just ringing each other up

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/141349main_06pd0094.jpg http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/141388main_06pd0081.jpg and there is a good movie of the launch here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/launch/newhorizons-allvideos.html http://www.launchphotography.com/NewHorizons.html - Has ...

that sounds reasonable. certainly not high =)

Hi all,

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060124.html

does anyone know where I can find a higher resolution copy of this image?

cheers!

Thanks Qev! I follow now

so at this distance, we'll be fine as long as the poles arent pointed towards us?
I still think this is a wonderful excuse to build a gamma ray proof mini dyson sphere make it a comet catcher, too!

Wouldn't it be either a field or a geometry, and always a force?

can you explain what you mean?

With such a strong gravity how come a smaller companions can remain intact and the larger galaxies show dramatic effect? I expect that the gravity 'gradient' would play an important role, for large galaxies the side closer to the companion galaxy would feel a greater force than the far side, wherea...

I mean, this is what they see, and this is what they show on presentations.

nothing wrong with a bit of sensationalism!

*link* I also found this confusing. I considered the silhouette explanation, but I am still worried by the apparent size of Rhea - since it is in the background of this image (and hence the rings can be silhouetted against it), it must be at quite a distance from Cassini - so far in fact that I wou...

would it still endanger us from this distance, i wonder?

thanks for the link Qev!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060322.html

I can see the ring and also the shadow in the top left hand corner.