Here is my slightly blurry view of the planetary parade, were you able to see it?
Planetary Parade
15 responses to “Planetary Parade”
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i can her the band play π
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I think this view is the closest I’m going to get. So Thank you!
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You had more success than I – well done
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Thank youππ
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Yes!!! They are so evenly-spaced too, wow.
The last time this happened in 2004 inspired me to get a weekend job and buy a telescope, and motivated me to study at school to go to university and study astrophysics. It changed my life haha. I was just amazed, I went out each clear night to go and see the alignment whilst I could.
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The things I saw through that telescope btw, unbelievable. Do you have one?
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That’s so awesome!!! The stars are truly the best subject to studyβ¨ By any chance, did you capture photos with your telescope?
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I did indeed! I used to have them stored in google drive but now they’re in google photos the folder structure is gone. I’m gunna copy the astronomy ones over into a folder and share it!
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Yes, pleaseππ
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There were some older photos of Jupiter I couldn’t find which showed the cloud bands (and taken with a 2004-era mobile phone!) but here are most of them. They are taken with a digital camera held up to the eyepiece, from around 2007. There are pictures of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus (daytime pictures of Venus in crescent phase).
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TLD8sP65P0hWKmFn3R-YYbEC-mFhY5Oz?usp=sharing
Most impressive I think are Saturn and the Moon which are pretty close to what you see in the eyepiece of that telescope! Sadly I don’t own the telescope anymore after moving around so much and haven’t had the opportunity to do astronomy in quite a while, but would love to again!
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The Saturn photos are stunning!!!! They are all so beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing with me and I hope you find a way to get a telescope soon!!!
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Thank you!!! Glad you got to appreciate them :D.
It’s true the Saturn pictures seem surreal even now. I also had a smaller telescope whilst at university and an amazing experience I had was showing some of these things to people for the first time, as they were walking past when I was living on the campus in the first year. They thought it must be a sticker on the eyepiece, it was too picture-perfect! There’s really something about seeing these things so familiar from pictures with your own eyes for the first time, it’s a unique experience.
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That’s so awesome!!!
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