#moons
#PDS70: #Disk, #Planets, and #Moons
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
JWST captured the clearest view of #Neptune’s rings and 7 of its 14 known #moons. #Triton, Neptune’s largest #moon, appears brighter than the planet in this Webb view.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/162ouu6/jwst_captured_the_clearest_view_of_neptunes_rings/
In #2009, #Hubble captured the rare transits of #Saturn's four #moons #Titian, #Mimas, #Dione, and #Enceladus. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) News Release: 2009-12 >
https://hubblesite.org/science/solar-system
#Moons Across Jupiter
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230613.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YEXuGgRCyS0
It's a clear #night and #Jupiter and #Venus are bright in the #western #sky and getting closer together in their apparent positions. This is a #photograph of the pair with a 1.6 s exposure. It is also difficult to get a sharp #focus manually as autofocus doesn't really work with objects at infinity and yet effectively points of light. This taken with a 400 mm #telephoto #lens.
Also with long exposures and a heavy lens, even a the tiniest #vibration on the tripod can blur the image, even with the sharpest focus. Here's the same image but cropping around Jupiter. You can see its four biggest satellites, (left to right: #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto, information courtesy of #Stellarium)
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KUNDALINI SHAKTI
FIRE & WATER SERPENTS
Let us consider the pair of #Bhadrapada #Nakshatra’s.
These are lunar houses that transport the utmost extremity of energies.
These lunar stations bring about grand shifts of energy when they are focused upon and worked with. They transfer the energy of Kundalini Shakti.
The Bhadrapada Nakshatra’s connect the Kundalini serpents of #fire and #water, #Moon and #Sun.
https://www.ancient-tantra.com/73-bhadrapadas/
WEBB PHOTOGRAPHS #NEPTUNE'S #RINGS: The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. NASA relased the new image on Sept. 21st:
"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in infrared light," notes Heidi Hammel, an interdisciplinary scientist for Webb. Some of the rings have not been detected since NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989.
The rings of Neptune, like those of #Uranus, are thought to be relatively young; their age is significantly less than that of the #SolarSystem. They were likely created by the collisional fragmentation of onetime inner moons and are made of extremely dark organic compounds processed by radiation.
Webb also captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known #moons. Dominating this Webb portrait of Neptune is a very bright point of light radiating diffraction spikes seen in many of Webb's images, but this is not a star. Rather, this is Neptune’s large and unusual moon, #Triton.
https://spaceweather.com/
#Moons Beyond #Rings at #Saturn
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
Another #night and another #photograph of #Jupiter. This time you can three of its four big #Moons (they are #Ganymede, #Callisto and #Europa).
I've also included the #snapshot from #Stellarium so you can see the names of each.
If you compare tonight's #image with the #photograph from 11 days ago, you can see how much Jupiter has moved with respect to the background starts of #Capricorn. Planets literally are wanderers.
Of course, the real question is this: Is Stellarium a good model of reality or is reality a good model of Stellarium...
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I think of myself as a hobbyist #photographer interested in many things, including #astronomy and sometimes I get lucky. Tonight, for example, I noticed #Jupiter was close to the #Moon and so I got my #tripod out and tried to #photograph the pair. Currently, both are in #Capricorn and to get both, one needs a longish exposure. Here I used 2 s. This of course means that the Moon's features can't be seen as the lit surface is #overexposed but you can see its unlit side too.
The very nice thing about this image is that you can actually see Jupiter's four largest satellites too, so you could say that the photograph actually shows five #moons in total. Jupiter is forming a triangle here with #DenebAlgedi (bottom left) and #Nashira (bottom right)
By focusing around Jupiter itself, you can see its moons much better. From left to right, you can see #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto. The three #stars forming a diagonal line are, respectively, 45, 44 and 42 #Capricorni (left to right).
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Two #moons tonight, or rather the same #Moon but with different #exposure times. The first is darker with a faster shutter speed. It looks a bit more moody and atmospheric.
The second is a longer exposure and I think also better focused (both done manually) and so is brighter and sharper.
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