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- Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn (APOD 20 Jul 2008)
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rings and bands in Saturn
Sorry for my previous message about rings and bands not being parallel in the Saturn picture of today: they are not bands in the body of Saturn, they are the shadow of the rings, so the photography is OK. My apologies
- Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn (APOD 20 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 10
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Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn (APOD 20 Jul 2008)
Today's picture of Saturn and its rings can not be the result of a single photography: you don't have to be a geometer to tell that if the plane of the rings and the planes of the bands in the saturn body are parallel, which I think they are, then the rings and the bands can not be inclined the way ...