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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Seeing Saturn ARCS @ Yerkes Observatory Friday, February 22, 2008 22:42 Central Standard Time Saturday, February 23, 2008 04:42 Universal Time
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Yerkes Observatory 40 inch refractor dome 24 inch reflector dome http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Yerkes 40 inch refractor http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Yerkes Observatory 24 inch reflecting telescope http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration
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Screen Capture from Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration M Corp’s Guess……. Titan Dione Tethys Rhea
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Student Predictions - Board Work
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Saturn on other nights You can find more sets of images of Saturn and other objects at http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/observing/yerkes24/2008images/ Can you identify the moons in this image?
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Try Subaru Image Processor Makali’i Download Makali’i (means Pleiades in Hawaiian) from http://makalii.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.html.en Remember to register your software. Then open up a set of Saturn images. Set up the contrast so you can see the moons.
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Auto Contrast Setup
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Blink to watch the ‘seeing’ change the quality of the images.
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Sometimes it looks like a moon is double! ‘Poor seeing’ creates kind of a double exposure. Seeing: Different temperatures and densities of bubbles or layers of air in the atmosphere refract the light first this way, then that way.
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Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration Hubble Space Telescope is above the Earth’s atmosphere... No worries about ‘seeing’ conditions out in space! http://heritage.stsci.edu/1998/29/index.html
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