If one is not motivated in advance, to observe the night sky is a drag. Come on, think about it. You go out at night without lights blind him away from the city, with a little (or a lot) of cold. Mount the telescope in the dark, sweating to carry the tube, tripod and counterweight. Point the telescope to point to the polar and thus follow the movement of the stars at night. Wait, it starts to drizzle. Collect quickly. Well, it seems to have stopped. Back to assemble. Look, now it has cleared. But you see four stars in the sky orange. "We aim this planet? Come. Oysters can not find it. Let me. Let's see if I aim better. There. Mira. But I only see a point!
stars through a telescope looks remain a point, although a bit brighter. Nebulae and planets atmospheres need to clean and use appropriate increases. And even then most likely only see a big spot or a speck weakling.
So the observation of the sky requires using a little imagination to see what you've seen in photographs on the Internet in full color and with high magnification.
There are a couple or three objects in the sky that hardly anyone not disappoint. My particular of these three objects may be the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter, in that order. The moon is clear. Even without a telescope and you could be looking for hours (or minutes if you're a normal human). As the planets is curious that Saturn has put before Jupiter, bearing in mind that Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System and which is also closer. The explanation lies in the rings of Saturn.
Compare the size of Saturn to Earth.
remember when I first looked at Saturn through a telescope I thought someone had painted Saturn in the eyepiece of the telescope to play a joke. It looked perfectly the ring around Saturn, which had always seen in pictures of Saturn and also some satellites aligned with that ring that you could almost see orbiting around it. How beautiful!
Galileo was again the first to observe Saturn with a telescope and it drew a round with two ears attached.
Drawings by Galileo in the first observation of Saturn with a telescope.
These two ears were the ring of Saturn, but as your telescope did not have much resolution nor expect to see any ring around Saturn, as he interpreted it as two moons of Saturn (moons must have been great to have the size you drew). But the best part was that later, Galileo observed Saturn and again and saw nothing but those two huge moons of Saturn. What had happened? Quite simply the slope of the ring of Saturn from the Earth had changed and now I saw in profile.
The tilt of Saturn's rings changes with time.
The ring of Saturn are, in fact, several rings, composed of many particles of water ice (or ie, ice) and not any solid object. These ice particles can be of various sizes (from micrometers to meters).
Structure of Saturn's rings.
Since the Earth is relatively easy to see that the rings are empty regions (such as the Cassini division, which separates the B ring and the rings C, D, E and F are more difficult to appreciate . These gaps in the rings were thought to be related to places where the orbits were not stable and the particles were there migrated outward or inward leaving these gaps in the ring. But now believed that the interaction with the magnetosphere must also influence the presence of the divisions between rings.
In 2009, the Spitzer infrared space telescope on Saturn ring discovered another, much larger than the others, making it the largest ring in the Solar System. Since then, Saturn has earned the title of 'The Lord of the Rings.
Saturn ring discovered by Spitzer in 2009.
By the way, did you know that Saturn's rings are involved in an oxygen atmosphere ? I when I found out I was stunned. Atmosphere "in the rings? What oxygen is nothing more and nothing less? I can imagine the astronauts collect ice for their drinks in the ring of Saturn and without oxygen tanks but breathing the very atmosphere of the future ice cubes. Cool! Yes, it appears that the cold water with the help of sunlight breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen, being light escapes into space, but the oxygen remains forming the thin atmosphere of the talking.
But for atmosphere, this is not the only surprise is that Saturn has prepared us. One of its satellites, Titan is the only satellite Solar System with a substantial atmosphere. And it's a methane atmosphere very similar to what is believed to on early Earth was at the time when life was formed. The existence of this atmosphere, detected in 1908 a Catalan astronomer who, like me, studied at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcalled Josep Comas i Solà.
Well as I said, observe Saturn with a telescope worth it if you have the chance. The vision of the rings is wonderful. Seen from the surface should be spectacular. Can you imagine that the Earth had rings too? See monuments like the Sagrada Familia or the Eiffel Tower with these rings in bright sky during day and night will be spectacular.
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