Jupiter & Saturn Alignment

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Jupiter bottom left? Moons?

Yep ...thinking back to 4th grade...

Jupiter is larger than Saturn.

Jupiter is a lot closer to us than Saturn

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Dr J

These are my better shots. From a 10” reflector through my phone. It was hard to shoot due to the disparity in brightness between Jupiter and Saturn.

Nice, and you managed to squeeze two of Jupiter's moons in while not blowing out the two planets much.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by masraum

Nice, and you managed to squeeze two of Jupiter's moons in while not blowing out the two planets much.

+1

One could argue three moons.

This is pretty cool as Jupiter is always easy to find but it's lonely.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

+1

One could argue three moons.

This is pretty cool as Jupiter is always easy to find but it's lonely.

Good catch. Closer inspection reveals that there are at least 3 moons in the shot.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by tcar

Jupiter is a lot closer to us than Saturn

Jupiter 474 million miles from Sun
Saturn 927

[Fast Freddy 944]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

It takes only a few years to travel to Jupiter. We have sent multiple probes that way, Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons.... The only reason we would go in person are the moons. Europa is the most probable place we could find organic life. Its a big ball of water covered with ice.

Water is the key to getting to the planets. Not speed. One part of the upcoming Artemis 3 mission is to land near our moon's south pole to find ice. Then a lunar colony.

Then on to the Martian poles.

Einstein, gravity and time dilation are a whole other discussion.

Ah E=mc2 Einstein, my main man! Got a logic test book of his, quite fun little book indeed. Yeup merican has sent probes into space, I remember when Voyager was launched back in the 70's we did class projects back then. Speed? Theory of relitivity, time and space etc. I do think Ion, plasma or fusion drives will be the wave of the future propelling us to our chosen spots a little quicker, remember our Wright bros? well pardner they would have never imagined Mericas sr-71 black bird. Our rockets are pretty slow with their solid and liquid powered engines, so the future holds great promise for us space buffs...

[3rd_gear_Ted]

So far they are up to 20 second full power plasma fields.
There is now an effort turning A.I. loose on the results.

[Fast Freddy 944]

Yes, indeed, I heard area 51 has some goodies that will smoke liquid and solid propellent rockets and boosters, but we have to wait to find out. Some gent on History channel said there is a 10 year wait. Oh well, Star Trek is on tv, perchance to dream..

[Nostril Cheese]

A neighbor of mine, growing up, worked at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Of course I pestered him to tell me stuff. Years later he told me he worked on the F-117.

I remember him saying something like... Imagine the highest level of technology the public has.. Well the military has things 20-30 years beyond that.

[Fast Freddy 944]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

A neighbor of mine, growing up, worked at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Of course I pestered him to tell me stuff. Years later he told me he worked on the F-117.

I remember him saying something like... Imagine the highest level of technology the public has.. Well the military has things 20-30 years beyond that.

Area 51 has all the goodies that we may never know of. We probably see them as ufo's but thats it. I got a chuckle out of the folks trying to crash the gates of area 51 at Groom lake, now that was funny. Top secret spacecraft and aircraft are at the fiddy one and we may never know. Shame...[IMG][/IMG]

[bivenator]

DR J, that is a slam dunk. Thanks for sharing. The Saturn rings are fascinating.

[Dr J]

Originally Posted by bivenator

DR J, that is a slam dunk. Thanks for sharing. The Saturn rings are fascinating.

^^^Thanks. Maybe I will get more into it 2021. Next step would be a proper camera.