Astronomy Picture of the Day - Saturn: 1993 - 2022

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 19 Aug, 2022 | Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN)

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: Saturn is the most distant planet of the Solar System easily visible to the unaided eye. With this extraordinary, long-term astro-imaging project begun in 1993, you can follow the ringed gas giant for one Saturn year as it wanders once around the ecliptic plane, finishing a single orbit around the Sun by 2022. Constructed from individual images made over 29 Earth years, the split panorama is centered along the ecliptic and crossed by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Saturn's position in 1993 is at the right side, upper panel in the constellation Capricornus and progresses toward the left. It returns to the spot in Capricornus at left in the lower panel in 2022. The consistent imaging shows Saturn appears slightly brighter during the years 2000-2005 and 2015-2019, periods when its beautiful rings were tilted more face-on to planet Earth.

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[DannyTN]

[DannyTN]

it's very difficult to make constellation drawings in space.

• They have to move with the earth
• but be synchronized so they remain lined up with the stars in the constellation.
• They have to be far enough away so that they appeared lined up with the constellation even when two people at opposite sides of the earth are viewing.
• Yet they have to be big enough that people can easily see there is a line there.

[DannyTN]

• And they need to be out of the way of any known satellites, space craft, Space stations, or debris.

The last thing you want to see is some chinese space craft hitting Orion below the belt and warping your constellation drawing into "Oh My Balls".

[Larry Lucido]

Um, happy new year?

[AFB-XYZ]

The last thing you want to see is some chinese space craft hitting Orion below the belt and warping your constellation drawing into "Oh My Balls"

Okay, now THAT made me laugh loud enough to scare the parrot. Heh.

[MtnClimber]

it's very difficult to make constellation drawings in space.

I think they must use colored string. They probably use knots that won't slip off.