Re: Uranus and Neptune rotation movies from Palomar

From: Michael Koop ^lt;koopm_at_No-Spam>
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 16:46:50 MST

Not bad......

But this one is much better...
http://ao.jpl.nasa.gov/Palao/AdditionalResults.html

Click on the image of Titan to show the movie of Saturn's Moon Titan
eclipsing a binary star.
Note how the star gets refracted by Titan's Atmosphere.
Amazing.....

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, plefevre wrote:

> Thought you guys would like to see these...
>
> They were put together by one of the astronomers at
> Palomar, using the new AO system on the big Hale
> (200") telescope. Scott Kardell sent the links
> to the docents, I'm passing them along:
>
> http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~banfield/work/nepmovie/anim2.html
> http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~banfield/work/urnmovie/anim2.html
>
> I like the Uranus one the best -- rings are visible :)
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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