Let's Talk Space!

[Joey F]

Let's talk about Space.

 

This chat will be related to Space Exploration, Science, Planets, and anything else to do with the Cosmos. Let's talk recent NASA launches, finds, and missions - Such as the Cassini Spacecraft, Hubble Telescope, or Voyagers 1 & 2, etc.

[Teddy07]

space exploration sadly doesn't get enough funding. We could have been way more ahead but money is rather spent on the military. So shortsighted!

 

edit: welcome to the Forum

[Joey F]

2 hours ago, Teddy07 said:

space exploration sadly doesn't get enough funding. We could have been way more ahead but money is rather spent on the military. So shortsighted!

 

edit: welcome to the Forum

IKR?! Instead of the world putting their differences aside, we could be not only exploring space with a probe, but I think we could've done more manned exploration past our moon and low Earth orbit. 

 

Thank you for welcoming me ?

[Nicnac]

I really hope they are gonna go ahead with the planned robotic Europa mission

[Lathlaer]

I am deeply passionate about space exploration and it breaks my heart that I have not been born 150-200 years in the future. Of course I say that now with hindsight, I'd probably be as casual and blase about space in the future as I am now about ipods but still, it's a nice dream to have.

[Skanky Sylveon]

Saturn's northern hemisphere is shaped like a hexagon.

 

Bee hives are shaped like hexagons.

 

Does this mean that Saturn is a giant bee hive?

[Guest]

Neil degrasse Tyson is a legend

[Skanky Sylveon]

3 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Neil degrasse Tyson is a legend

Some may say that his achievements are,

 

out of this world.

[Joey F]

1 hour ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Some may say that his achievements are,

 

out of this world.

I laughed way to hard at that ?

[Anjelllo]

5 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Neil degrasse Tyson is a legend

He shows up on r/iamverysmart a lot lol.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Tagging @iamdarkbowser here

 

We're working on a solar tracker based on 3D printed parts and some old stepper motors.

[iamdarkbowser]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170924.html

[Skanky Sylveon]

4 hours ago, Joey F said:

I laughed way to hard at that ?

We all need a good laugh sometimes.  

3 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

We're working on a solar tracker based on 3D printed parts and some old stepper motors.

Interesting, care to give more details?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Cinnabar Sonar said:

We all need a good laugh sometimes.  

Interesting, care to give more details?

My brother is the one using it. I designed and 3D printed stuff, as well as designed and built the controller

[Skanky Sylveon]

10 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

My brother is the one using it. I designed and 3D printed stuff, as well as designed and built the controller

Is it going to be used for solar panels?

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Is it going to be used for solar panels?

Telescope! Hoping to get it to track precisely with the earth's rotation

[Skanky Sylveon]

15 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Telescope! Hoping to get it to track precisely with the earth's rotation

I can see uses for that, are you hooking a camera to the telescope?

[iamdarkyoshi]

5 minutes ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

I can uses uses for that, are you hooking a camera to the telescope?

Yup. We bought a fairly cheap adapter.

[Skanky Sylveon]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Yup. We bought a fairly cheap adapter.

Cool, long exposure photos?  Or time lapse videos?

Also, at the risk of sounding like captain obvious, you do have a sun filter, right?

[Joey F]

31 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

My brother is the one using it. I designed and 3D printed stuff, as well as designed and built the controller

As my family always says "Pics or it didn't happen"

[iamdarkyoshi]

5 minutes ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Cool, long exposure photos?  Or time lapse videos?

Also, at the risk of sounding like captain obvious, you do have a sun filter, right?

Both, and I'd need to ask @iamdarkbowser

4 minutes ago, Joey F said:

As my family always says "Pics or it didn't happen"

Its in his room, and its 22:49, he's sleeping like a normal person

[Joey F]

Just in case you all haven't seen these 300,000+ pages of Cassini's pictures of Jupiter - https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/raw-images?order=earth_date+desc&per_page=50&page=0

 

NOTE: Even though no real back story is needed to make these pictures more amazing, The Cassini Spacecraft's batteries were running low and as Cassini began to full into Jupiter's atmosphere, it took several pictures before the crafts batteries fully drained, to which the craft was ripped apart entering Jupiter's atmosphere. ALL INTENTIONALLY TOO! ?

[Joey F]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Both, and I'd need to ask @iamdarkbowser

Its in his room, and its 22:49, he's sleeping like a normal person

Well, when he wakes up, that'd be one cool thing to see!

[Skanky Sylveon]

9 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Both, and I'd need to ask @iamdarkbowser

14 minutes ago, Joey F said:

While camera sensors are more robust than the human eve (in terms of "looking" at the sun directly) prolonged exposure without adequate protection can still ruin them.

You can also use shade 14 welding glass, if you want to save some money, as long as you don't mind a green sun.

Here is an example of what the sun will look like with shade 14 welding glass.

[iamdarkbowser]

11 hours ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Cool, long exposure photos?  Or time lapse videos?

Also, at the risk of sounding like captain obvious, you do have a sun filter, right?

I do not have a sun filter, I mostly wanted to take pictures of the planets and perhaps some deep sky objects, if I can point at them that is.