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Stu
post Oct 22 2010, 05:31 PM
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Just read a Tweet about this very cool movie...

http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2010/10/a...h-adaptive.html


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phase4
post Oct 22 2010, 11:13 PM
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Awesome! Neptune is also very pretty;

http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2010/10/a...h-adaptive.html
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post Dec 19 2010, 03:57 AM
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QUOTE (phase4 @ Oct 22 2010, 05:13 PM) *
Awesome! Neptune is also very pretty;

http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2010/10/a...h-adaptive.html


Fascinating. I have never seen movie like this. The moon must be Triton (retograde orbit)
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post Dec 23 2010, 09:01 PM
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It's not clear from the video whether the moon moves in front of Neptune or behind it so I don't think you can conclude that the orbit is retrograde (i.e. Triton's) without more info

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Fascinating. I have never seen movie like this. The moon must be Triton (retograde orbit)
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- Stu   Movie of Uranus   Oct 22 2010, 05:31 PM
- - antipode   Cool. Not quite the 100% bland and boring ball we ...   Oct 22 2010, 09:38 PM
|- - ugordan   Cool. Remember this is still pretty deep in the in...   Oct 22 2010, 09:43 PM
- - phase4   Awesome! Neptune is also very pretty; http://...   Oct 22 2010, 11:13 PM
|- - Mirek   QUOTE (phase4 @ Oct 22 2010, 05:13 PM) Aw...   Dec 19 2010, 03:57 AM
|- - toddbronco2   It's not clear from the video whether the moon...   Dec 23 2010, 09:01 PM
|- - Mirek   QUOTE (toddbronco2 @ Dec 23 2010, 03:01 P...   Jan 5 2011, 07:07 PM
- - brellis   I want to live at least another couple hundred yea...   Dec 19 2010, 04:03 AM
|- - Mirek   QUOTE (brellis @ Dec 18 2010, 10:03 PM) I...   Dec 19 2010, 04:14 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Well. the moon must be Triton because there are no...   Dec 23 2010, 11:55 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Unlikely, yes, but the size argument seems decisiv...   Jan 5 2011, 07:57 PM
- - Hungry4info   What about a background star?   Jan 5 2011, 08:40 PM
- - Mirek   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jan 5 2011, 02:40 PM...   Jan 5 2011, 09:02 PM

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