Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Dylan8]

I'm learnding

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

Some of the more pricey telescopes comes with software in which you hook your laptop up to the scope, and it will get the GPS location you are at, and then it will adjust the telescope to the locations of any given planet etc for viewing. It's really great stuff. In terms of actually seeing Jupiter, it would be due to the light from the sun passing through the gasses giving them luminescence. Similarly to how water spray shines in the sun here on earth.

I want to get the infa-red ones I heard they are the way to go...I dont mind dropping the cash but I need to know which brands are respected...

 

[Portia]

My brain is melting

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

I get the water inference but water is a visible liquid and can be seen especially when compacted eg earth..

but the gases are not visible even when compacted or we would see them in our atmospere eg oxygen

 

[Dylan8]

 

[Jim Dixon]

I get the water inference but water is a visible liquid and can be seen especially when compacted eg earth..

but the gases are not visible even when compacted or we would see them in our atmospere eg oxygen

Gas is visible! The sky is blue, and that's why- you're seeing the atmosphere. The sunlight hits the atmosphere and illuminates it. You don't see the atmosphere at night because there's no sunlight to illuminate it.

I'm suffereing a severe attack of telescope envy, btw.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

Gas is visible! The sky is blue, and that's why- you're seeing the atmosphere. The sunlight hits the atmosphere and illuminates it. You don't see the atmosphere at night because there's no sunlight to illuminate it.

I'm suffereing a severe attack of telescope envy, btw.

Hmm I pretty sure it comes from the sunlight spectrum hence blue pink purple green orange skies

 

[Jim Dixon]

Hmm I pretty sure it comes from the sunlight spectrum hence blue pink purple green orange skies

Yes- the light hits the gas and depending on the spectrum wavelength....

My teacher in grade 5 and 7 was Port Adelaide premiership player Tony Hannan, he could explain this way better then I could.

 

[bomberclifford]

Its not bettered is only an opinion... it holds as much scientific weight as any religion or aliens brought us here...

Okaaaayyy...

[slowly stepping away from Winocop]

 

[El_Scorcho]

The light pollution from closer stars is making the further stars invisible.

Under the same principle that makes it impossible to see stars past the light towers during a night game.

You can just post me my nobel prize if you like

 

[El_Scorcho]

If you go out into the country at night with no street lights around, you can see way more stars in the sky.

 

[It Just Is]

I get the water inference but water is a visible liquid and can be seen especially when compacted eg earth..

but the gases are not visible even when compacted or we would see them in our atmospere eg oxygen

What we see is a spectrum created by the refraction in the wavelengths of light as they pass through a medium, or element. Some produce light outside of the spectrum that is visible to the naked eye, while others are visible (ROYGBIV). The dispersion is measureable, even when the wavelengths are not within our visible range, and can be used to determine what elements are prevalent. This is how they can tell what the Sun, planets atmospheres and gas clouds comprise of.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

What we see is a spectrum created by the refraction in the wavelengths of light as they pass through a medium, or element. Some produce light outside of the spectrum that is visible to the naked eye, while others are visible (ROYGBIV). The dispersion is measureable, even when the wavelengths are not within our visible range, and can be used to determine what elements are prevalent. This is how they can tell what the Sun, planets atmospheres and gas clouds comprise of.

So oxygen is visible in a different spectrum of light? Sorry mate just a little confused by what your saying

El_Scorcho if you look up olbers paradox on wiki it has visual of the paradox that explains it better

 

[It Just Is]

So oxygen is visible in a different spectrum of light? Sorry mate just a little confused by what your saying

That's my understanding, yes.

If a ray of light passed through Oxygen it's wavelength will be slightly altered. Googling refraction of light should give you some answers.

Which bring us back to redshift and the Big Bang...

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I can lift heavy things.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

But I can't spell them.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

That's my understanding, yes.

If a ray of light passed through Oxygen it's wavelength will be slightly altered. Googling refraction of light should give you some answers.

Which bring us back to redshift and the Big Bang...

ok this does make sense now to the visibility of jupiter


Still not convinced about the dark sky yet mainly because so many mixed theories

 

[Eddie Dingle]

ok this does make sense now to the visibility of jupiter


Still not convinced about the dark sky yet mainly because so many mixed theories

Are there monsters under your bed?

Is that the real issue?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Are there monsters under your bed?

Is that the real issue?

There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?)
And he's bucking and braying and pawing at the floor (How much longer?)
And he's howling with pain, crawling up the walls (How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?)
And he's weak with evil and broken by the world (How much longer?)
And he's shouting your name and asking for more (How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer?)

Loverman! Since the world began
Forever, amen, till the end of time, yeah
Take off that dress, oh
I'm coming down, yeah
I'm your loverman, yeah
'cause I am what I am what I am what I am what I am

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

Are there monsters under your bed?

Is that the real issue?

Dingle I am dyslexic....

 

[Jim Dixon]

ok this does make sense now to the visibility of jupiter


Still not convinced about the dark sky yet mainly because so many mixed theories

I just looked out the window and the sky is definitely dark. 8pm here.

Trust me on this one.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

I just looked out the window and the sky is definitely dark. 8pm here.

Trust me on this one.

Still got a discussion about the sky being dark though .....

I mean its offseason and all..lol

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Are there monsters under your bed?

Is that the real issue?

I just watched Monsters University with my son.... Fu*ken oath !

 

[Jumbo]

jupiter and uranus I believe is made of hydrogen and helium right down to the core which are both colourless and transparent if you say that it gains a spectrum because of gravity well I dont see how but I guess it plausible

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Dingle I am dyslexic....

I said are there mnostres under your bed?