New photo of Saturn

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New photo of Saturn

Postby the foto fanatic on Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:18 am

For killa and our other astronomical photogs, here is a link to National Geographic's recent newsletter, which has a new picture of Saturn.

The picture is made up from 126 images and would be 320cm wide at its normal size:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0225_050225_saturn.html
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Re: New photo of Saturn

Postby Greg B on Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:06 am

cricketfan wrote:The picture is made up from 126 images and would be 320cm wide at its normal size:



Now that's what I call a pano :lol:

Good link, thanks cricketfan
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Postby Oneputt on Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:12 am

I awtched a program a while back about the Casini project which simply blew my mind. That is one terrific picture, but the project to get it is even more so.
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Postby Killakoala on Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:20 pm

Beautiful. I've been watching this mission intentlly for a couple of years now and i am blown away by the amazing sights returned so far.

Space!!! It's really big.
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Postby phillipb on Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:31 pm

Does anyone know what sort of shutter speeds they use to take those photos? I have never seen a photo of Saturn with the orbiting stuff (the rings) frozen by high shutter speeds. :shock: :?
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Postby agriffiths on Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:11 pm

Mankind is truly amazing! I wonder how the D70 would go straped to one of those babies...
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