by Ann » Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:03 am
I feel that
Neufer, Art Neuendorffer, perhaps the greatest profile of Starship Asterisk* ever, would protest at the description of today's APOD as Shapespeare in space. This is Shakespeare is space:
Wikipedia wrote:
2985 Shakespeare (prov. designation: 1983 TV1) is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 12 October 1983, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, and later named after William Shakespeare.[2][9] The presumed S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 6.1 hours and measures approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameter.
Classification and orbit
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group consisting of about 200 known bodies. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 10 months (1,756 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.05 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] It was first identified as 1962 JJ at Goethe Link Observatory in 1962. The body's observation arc begins with its identification 1976 GV at Crimea–Nauchnij, 7 years prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.[9]
Naming
This minor planet was named after William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the English renaissance dramatist and poet.[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 (M.P.C. 10044)...
Anyway. Let's take a closer look at the JWST picture of Uranus, shall we?
I'm going to discuss the colors in the JWST image as if they were real, which of course they are not.
Okay. The rings are easy to see. There is a bright outer white ring, and inside it, there is a set of pale gray or blue-gray rings. The innermost ring is a little darker or paler than the others, and it is ever so slightly greenish. Inside the rings, there is a brownish region. What is that?
Uranus itself displays a white contour, as if a cosmic artist had drawn Uranus and started by drawing a white outline of the planet. Inside the white outline, there is a beautiful blue crescent, like a waning Moon (lovely color, I must say), and to the right of that crescent, there is a large, roundish, white region, which seems to be bordered by a pale bluish outline. The center of the white region is "extra white".
What is this white region? Is it the polar cap of Uranus?
I'd love to know the names of the background galaxies! But I can't have everything.
Ann
I feel that [url=https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=42306]Neufer[/url], Art Neuendorffer, perhaps the greatest profile of Starship Asterisk* ever, would protest at the description of today's APOD as Shapespeare in space. This is Shakespeare is space:
[float=right][img3="3D convex shape model of 2985 Shakespeare, computed using light curve inversion techniques. Credit: Astronomical Institute of the Charles University: Josef Ďurech, Vojtěch Sidorin - DAMIT – Database of Asteroid Models from Inversion Techniques: for (2985) Shakespeare"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/002985-asteroid_shape_model_%282985%29_Shakespeare.png[/img3][/float][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2985_Shakespeare]Wikipedia[/url] wrote:
2985 Shakespeare (prov. designation: 1983 TV1) is a stony Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 12 October 1983, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, and later named after William Shakespeare.[2][9] The presumed S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 6.1 hours and measures approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameter.
Classification and orbit
The S-type asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group consisting of about 200 known bodies. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 10 months (1,756 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.05 and an inclination of 3° with respect to the ecliptic.[1] It was first identified as 1962 JJ at Goethe Link Observatory in 1962. The body's observation arc begins with its identification 1976 GV at Crimea–Nauchnij, 7 years prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.[9]
Naming
This minor planet was named after William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the English renaissance dramatist and poet.[2] The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 (M.P.C. 10044)...[/quote]
Anyway. Let's take a closer look at the JWST picture of Uranus, shall we?
[attachment=0]APOD 29 December 2023 detail.png[/attachment]
I'm going to discuss the colors in the JWST image as if they were real, which of course they are not.
Okay. The rings are easy to see. There is a bright outer white ring, and inside it, there is a set of pale gray or blue-gray rings. The innermost ring is a little darker or paler than the others, and it is ever so slightly greenish. Inside the rings, there is a brownish region. What is that?
Uranus itself displays a white contour, as if a cosmic artist had drawn Uranus and started by drawing a white outline of the planet. Inside the white outline, there is a beautiful blue crescent, like a waning Moon (lovely color, I must say), and to the right of that crescent, there is a large, roundish, white region, which seems to be bordered by a pale bluish outline. The center of the white region is "extra white".
What is this white region? Is it the polar cap of Uranus?
I'd love to know the names of the background galaxies! But I can't have everything. :wink:
Ann