ving
22-03-2005, 11:44 AM
happy 350th birthday.:birthday:
On the 25th of march 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovered saturns mon 'titan'. It amazing to think that this was such a long time ago. :confuse3:
He Used a home made 57mm refractor at about 50x magnification. This is the equivalent of say your typical department store 60mm and a 12mm eyepiece.:astron:
So who here has a small enough scope to replicate this discovery? I am going to drag out my lil' ebay scope, dust it down and try on the 25th to duplicate the discovery. how bout you guys?
:cool:
taken from: Night sky march 05 (http://www.bintelshop.com.au/NightSky/NightSky.pdf.) :birthday:
On the 25th of march 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovered saturns mon 'titan'. It amazing to think that this was such a long time ago. :confuse3:
He Used a home made 57mm refractor at about 50x magnification. This is the equivalent of say your typical department store 60mm and a 12mm eyepiece.:astron:
So who here has a small enough scope to replicate this discovery? I am going to drag out my lil' ebay scope, dust it down and try on the 25th to duplicate the discovery. how bout you guys?
:cool:
taken from: Night sky march 05 (http://www.bintelshop.com.au/NightSky/NightSky.pdf.) :birthday: