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[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Posted this in my shit hole thread a couple of days ago... It's got a very interesting commentary with that video about the transmission limitations and the technology needed to create the vids

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[Hugh_Janus]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. (Courtesy of NASA/ESA/A. Simon/M.H. Wong/OPAL Team)

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Totally calming.

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[FBD]

as great as these pictures are, it still never compares to actually having your eye absorb photons that have bounced off that motherfucker...will never forget the blackness of space in between planet in rings in 2007 when saturn was at its max tilt w respect to the earth, it was like how much more black can you get, and the answer is none, none more black

I wound up giving that telescope to my brother's kids up in maine, sky got too bright around here for 2 of my 3 lenses

I still got that 8 incher tho, and I was glad to see that solar filters have dropped in price precipitously since I last looked...I will have to do a little research and pick one up so I can start staring at the sun

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Are you calling bullshit?

[DemonGeminiX]

On most nights, when the conditions are right, you can see Jupiter without a telescope, but the moons of Jupiter are too small to view without one. With the best conditions, you could see Jupiter's 4 largest moons with binoculars.

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On most nights, when the conditions are right, you can see Jupiter without a telescope, but the moons of Jupiter are too small to view without one. With the best conditions, you could see Jupiter's 4 largest moons with binoculars.

It could be a telephoto lens and a very distant Forest. I think what surprises me is how sharp it is close to the horizon. Usually the air is too thick to get a decent pic

[DemonGeminiX]

It could be a telephoto lens and a very distant Forest. I think what surprises me is how sharp it is close to the horizon. Usually the air is too thick to get a decent pic

That is very true, I did not think of that. And then again, I don't have a telephoto lens, so I don't know very much about them aside from them being all kinds of awesome. With respect to the air being thick, I'm not too sure about that. He could be at a higher than assumed elevation.