800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas |
800Whrs+ Staying Up Late ideas |
Jun 6 2009, 07:04 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
With Spirit producing an annoyingly large amount of power given her current predicament, the time may well have come to re-open the Gusev astronomy society. Anyone have any dusk / nightime observation ideas?
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Jun 8 2009, 06:51 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Oh, just click away, you'll get something. It's not as if you're wasting film!
Seriously tho, Deimos, I really appreciate the comments on this. I know that if you manage to capture it, Earth will just be a spot of light but... well... come on, EARTH, shining in the sky on Mars... it doesn't get a lot cooler than that. And the Outreach value of such images, even less than perfect ones, simply cannot be over-stated. I gave a talk to a Womens' Institute last week, deep in the South Cumbrian outback, and part of my "Tour of the Universe" is a zoom-out from Earth to see how it shrinks and changes in apearance, using views from orbit, the Moon and of course Mars. The images of Earth taken by Kaguya always go down well, but they're familiar in that they look like better quality versions of well-known Apollo images. The Cassini image of Earth shining through a gap in the rings goes down well too, but takes quite a lot of explaining. Ah, but that image of Earth shining in Mars's sky... everyone at the talk had seen Venus shining after sunset as an Evening Star, so they found it easy to grasp the concept that Mars' evening star is often Earth... During the Mars section of my talk I always show an artist's impression of what Earth would look like in the sky from Mars, as a teaser, so when the real pic comes up on the screen later the response is always, always, "Wow... look at that... that's beautiful..." So go for it. Anything you get will be great! -------------------- |
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