Saturn and its moon Titan
We went to a Star Party last night, what an experience! The Black Hills Astronomical Society invited people to come view the heavens through their 12" and smaller telescopes, and have a look at the summer sky on the night before the summer solstice at their Hidden Valley observatory.
Saturn showed off its rings and 3 moons, including Titan. Multitudes of summer constellations materialized out of the darkening skies around us. A globular star cluster and the binary star pair, Alberio, in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) were gorgeous. The telescope we were using was large enough to see the color variation between the bright yellow and the fainter blue star of the binary system in the "beak of the swan".
Thanks BHAS, for sharing your telescopes and your enthusiasm, especially with the kids who came to look out in to the depths of space! What better than a summer night with bats and nighthawks flying, coyotes and frogs singing and all the visible universe around us. Awesome, awesome, awesome
Saturn showed off its rings and 3 moons, including Titan. Multitudes of summer constellations materialized out of the darkening skies around us. A globular star cluster and the binary star pair, Alberio, in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) were gorgeous. The telescope we were using was large enough to see the color variation between the bright yellow and the fainter blue star of the binary system in the "beak of the swan".
Thanks BHAS, for sharing your telescopes and your enthusiasm, especially with the kids who came to look out in to the depths of space! What better than a summer night with bats and nighthawks flying, coyotes and frogs singing and all the visible universe around us. Awesome, awesome, awesome
2 comments:
We would have loved to see that. Sounds fun!
RSR, I checked for next star party, the moon will be too close to full when you are here, maybe some other time.
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