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- Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:08 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Martian Analemma (APOD 30 Dec 2006)
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Martian Analemma (APOD 30 Dec 2006)
OK, so I am a newbie, and an amateur. I wonder why the analemma of Mars is not a figure 8 as the analemma of the Earth. Doesn't Mars have a tipped axis as does the Earth? Wouldn't the tip of the Mars axis cause the same shape analemma as we see here on Earth? This inquiring mind wants to know...
- Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:57 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Moon over Andromeda (APOD 28 Dec 2006)
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I never realized the scale!
Thanks for this image, of the moon superimposed to scale over Andromeda. I have looked at both through bare eye, binoculars, and various telescopes and I never realized the actual proportions. I am simply a rank amateur and I knew Andromeda was BIG, but I just never realized HOW big it is in the sky...