Jupiter

Larry B.

Larry B.

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Here's a couple of shots of the planet Jupiter I recently took.

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Hey Larry B, what is you opinion about the issue of changing the definition of a planet? Some organization made up of a bunch of international astronomers are going to vote about the change. If they make the change, then instead of nine planets in our solar system there will be 12 or more. It's a heated issue so we need Larry's thoughts on this. If there are to be new ones, I want pictures :)
 
Great pictures.

I was just wondering. How much would a telescope cost to see the kind off detail displayed in your pics? I would like to get one myself. Doesn't need to mount a camera or something. Just the occasionaly watching at home.
Good is good, not to expensive ;)
 
Awesome pix Larry!!!!!!!!
I love space pictures! I'd love to make those big wall murals out of space images.
 
Thomason said:
Hey Larry B, what is you opinion about the issue of changing the definition of a planet? Some organization made up of a bunch of international astronomers are going to vote about the change. If they make the change, then instead of nine planets in our solar system there will be 12 or more. It's a heated issue so we need Larry's thoughts on this. If there are to be new ones, I want pictures :)
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Hey Thomason,
From what I gather they want to make an asteroid and the moon of Pluto planets. I don't think that would happen and for whats its worth I don't think Pluto is a planet. The astronomers are split about even on weather Pluto is a planet or an object from the Kuiper belt. We will find out for sure when the spacecraft reaches pluto in 9 yrs.
 
Shaggy8675 said:
Great pictures.

I was just wondering. How much would a telescope cost to see the kind off detail displayed in your pics? I would like to get one myself. Doesn't need to mount a camera or something. Just the occasionaly watching at home.
Good is good, not to expensive ;)
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I use a TeleVue NP101 apo refractor which cost me about $3800. Then you need a quality mount which is another $1000. Eyepieces run a few hundred dollars a piece. You also need a high quality digital camera and some adapters.
Remember you can see Saturn and Jupiter with almost any decent scope, but if you want to see them with sharp resolution you will need good optics and that can get expensive.
 
But, I wonder... what does Uranus think about all this attention you are paying to Jupiter?
 
Larry B. said:
Hey Thomason,
From what I gather they want to make an asteroid and the moon of Pluto planets. I don't think that would happen and for whats its worth I don't think Pluto is a planet. The astronomers are split about even on weather Pluto is a planet or an object from the Kuiper belt. We will find out for sure when the spacecraft reaches pluto in 9 yrs.
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I think Pluto is a Kuiper belt object too. There are several Kuiper belt objects of comparable size, and there is one called Xena (or 2003 UB313 to be exact) which is bigger. It has a very excentric orbit which brings it closer than Pluto on the closest point (35 UA). These objects are "leftovers" from the hectic period of solar system formation and IMO can't be defined as planets. As far as I know, a planet is a body which forms by accretion of dust and gas from the stellar disc. I very much doubt Pluto was formed like this, it's too far and it's orbit is too excentric.
 
flava said:
I think Pluto is a Kuiper belt object too. There are several Kuiper belt objects of comparable size, and there is one called Xena (or 2003 UB313 to be exact) which is bigger. It has a very excentric orbit which brings it closer than Pluto on the closest point (35 UA). These objects are "leftovers" from the hectic period of solar system formation and IMO can't be defined as planets. As far as I know, a planet is a body which forms by accretion of dust and gas from the stellar disc. I very much doubt Pluto was formed like this, it's too far and it's orbit is too excentric.
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Exactly my opinion.
 
Hey Larry B - is the round object in the first picture at about the "2 o'clock" position one of the moons or is it a feature of the surface banding?
 
mycroftt said:
Hey Larry B - is the round object in the first picture at about the "2 o'clock" position one of the moons or is it a feature of the surface banding?
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Hey mycroft.....That's the shadow of one of Jupiter's moons. When you look at Jupiter you always see the four closest moons at different positions to the planet.
 
One of the guys commenting on the planet debate on last week's Science Friday made the "no iceball left behind" comment....

I gather the definition will be something to the effect that a planetary body must be in orbit around the Sun and have sufficient gravity to pull itself into a "round" shape.
 
To a metallurgist it looks like "alloy banding " !!!! I'd like Larry to go to Mars and photo the jets of CO2 and sand that they've found ,as the sun's heat vaporizes the frozen CO2 . I only saw an artists rendition.
 
That's a good tellescope, so I am wondering, can one see the remains of the Appollo lunar landers on the moon, and could it pick up the rover's on Mars?
 
Bufford said:
That's a good tellescope, so I am wondering, can one see the remains of the Appollo lunar landers on the moon, and could it pick up the rover's on Mars?
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Not even the Hubble telescope can do that.
 
Well the vote is in and Pluto is out. No longer a planet. Somebody is going to have a lot of pen and ink textbook changes to do. Only 8 planets in our solar system now. Old Pluto had a good run, 1930-2006.
 
Never did match the accretion models in elliptic and composition. Now Pluto tests positive for "planetoids" and has its title stripped.

At least the junk in the Kuiper Belt and other nameless chunks of debris weren't voted to planet status as some journalists surmised. I'm still having trouble dealing with the fact that Jupiter's moon count is now 63 and has Trojans and Greeks following it around the solar system........:confused: Whatever. To quote my line super's lack of astronomical awareness, "On a clear day, you can see Uranus!"




:D

J
 
Well it's always been my goal to visually observe all the planets. I've never seen Pluto, but as of today, I have officially achieved my goal.
 
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