December 21st Solstice PARTAY! Come see live video of Saturn! The rings are not "tilted!" *Thanks for coming!*

thanks astro

Caught the tail end of the broadcast, great stuff! Thanks Astro, hope you'll be doing more broadcasts.

You have to register to chat in the chatbox.

Piss off with them ads LOL

Thanks everyone, thanks for coming!

Great show, Doc! This is what I'll remember most about Dec 21, 2012 in my old age. Many, many thanks!

No, thank YOU for taking the time and trouble to do all this in the first place.

*yawn* w00t!

Nooooes! I slept through it!

Damn :(

Happy New Years!!!!!

lol im sorry!!!!

only 26,000 years until the next one

Gah dem it!!!

Well. Shit. LOL!!! I guess I won't know the secrets of the Universe this time around. I'll get it next time.

:hunabku77:

we did it!! good work, GLP!!

Some post-show video recording of Saturn that I did:

Thank you for your time & video! Absolutely beautiful!!!

it's shaking as hell must be windy there !!!

Uhh astro?

What about Jupiter? People said that was the first to tilt maybe saturn was only a doom spread but Jupiters real? i really dunno

No. The weather didn't clear in time for me to catch Jupiter, but it hasn't tilted. I saw it myself last night after my justin.tv channel got taken down. I'll do Jupiter later, what Nancy foolishly presented is just the effect of field rotation which is normal even for Jupiter from an alt-az perspective:

Thanks for proving you were here and saw the broadcast.

Here's a stacked image from the above video:

Someone please tell Denise to crawl back to the mental institution she escaped.

Astro should send her this as a video response! Not that she will accept but at least you did the right thing.

Oh I would love to, but she's blocked all comments/responses on that video.

That woman is a great example of how shockingly dense and misinformed some people can be.

Who the hell is Denise?

I AM!!! WHOOOHOOO! THO IT WONT REALLY GET ROKKIN IN DA BAKKEN TILL DARK!!!!

Denise: [link to www.youtube.com]

Isn't it supposed to be tilted slightly? It looks perfectly level, other planets are not perfectly level. Did you adjust it so it would be perfectly level? Doesn't it rotate on it's axis like Earth?

Hes just a liar or troll (guess the first one), dont feed him.


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Last Edited by DVCMCM on 12/21/2012 01:06 PM

Ahhh thanks!

As a sidenote, I wonder what that PM Denise received that is featured on her FB there

Saturn appears to tilt towards or away from us over the course of its orbit, but side to side it should look level right now, with the rings "open" not edge on. I showed both the orientation of the camera during the broadcast and that the planet moves horizontally when I use the guide rate east and west commands during the above video. That proves it's pretty much level with the equatorial grid.