Showing posts with label saturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saturn. Show all posts

March 31, 2008

Pleiades, Jupiter & Saturn

The moon passes the Pleiades star cluster (W) on April 8.

Jupiter dominates the morning sky early April shining at
magnitude -2.2 (SE).

Saturn, the lord of the rings, glows at magnitude 0.4 among the stars of Leo on the evening sky this month. Saturn's rings will disappear from our sight later this year as the planet tilts edge-on.

March 27, 2008

Saturn: Lord Of The Rings



It bothers me that I can't take pictures of everything I see, so in a desperate move to see if I can take a picture of Saturn, I tried to hook my videocamera to my telescope. It was not entirely good, but not bad either. What do you think?