Comments on: Saturn’s Thin Blue Line

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:56:14 +0000

As an amateur astronomer (and astrophotographer), who has been studying the science since I was 5, I readily admit that I view Saturn as often as possible. The views that are attainable with today’s scopes and CCD cameras far surpasses Planetarium pictures from just a few decades ago.

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By: thomas romer

thomas romer — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:32:27 +0000

i was looking for a comment on the color. most images of saturn are peach and with cassini blueish at the northern poleâ€¦Â which I THOUGHT was due to color filtering through the rings but recently read that the peach clouds have actually dissapapted due to saturnian winter and the ring shadows making it colder in the north. so saturn really does have blue skies up north right now!

By: yasmin

yasmin — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:53:31 +0000

i am doing my talk on saturn i dont have much info

if u have info email me at

yasmin5200000@hotmail.com

thz

By: littlecat

littlecat — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:30:13 +0000

Saturn is the first planet I look for in the night sky when Im outside on a clear night. To this day it still thrills me, makes me smile and makes me long to see it from space. I’m sending the pic to my brother and also making it a background for my screen.
Thanks Phil and nice work.

By: Len

Len — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:22:05 +0000

>Iâ€™ve said it before, and Iâ€™ll say it againâ€“ Saturn is a very cool place.

Alright, you’ve convinced me. How much for a round trip ticket?

By: Ajith

Ajith — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:43:57 +0000

Thanks for igniting an interest in our cool neighbors. I’ll be buying my first telescope soon. Thanks again for your wonderful blog.

Ajith
Bangalore, India

By: Bob Allee

Bob Allee — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:13:36 +0000

Ahh, the wonder and exitement of my 1st viewing of Saturn returns. The loveliest view in a small telescope. I often wish I could share this with Galileo, he never really saw or understood the rings through his primitive 4X telescope because they looked more like an unexplainable blur.

By: JusANuttaBackYahdah

JusANuttaBackYahdah — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:53:54 +0000

So true, Saturn is cool…doesn’t matter what else I may be looking at… if it’s in the sky…I’ve got to take a peek….thanks for a great blog BA!

By: Mickal555

Mickal555 — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:44:49 +0000

Wow- I made the image my background and it neatly splits my desktop icons in half.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:36:33 +0000

Wow, Carolyn Porco posted to my blog! Kewl. For those of you who don’t know her, she is a mover and shaker in the planetary science community (Carolyn, if you are still reading this, we had lunch together in Boulder a few years ago when I was visiting Dan Durda at SWRI).

I didn’t talk about true versus false color in this entry, but I guess I can point out that Saturn is not brown.

By: CR

CR — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:31:51 +0000

I still have my cheapo 30x department store telescope from when I was 7 years old (something like 3 decades ago); I use it to show Jupiter’s moons & details on Earth’s moon to kids.

By: kara

kara — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:31:01 +0000

I remember seeing Saturn for the first time through a telescope and I couldn’t believe they were real…the rings! Thanks to NASA and The Cassini orbiter it’s confirmed

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:21:47 +0000

Yea, I remember the first time I watched Saturn through that old cheap telescope a friend of dad’s let me borrow… It didn’t look big at all, and my parents could barely make out the rings and planet since the eyepiece did not magnify much… But I could easily see the gap between the planet and the rings through the scratches and the incredible amount of dust. And a lovely little goldish color. Jupiter was looking good too. Much bigger, of course.

By: Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:18:09 +0000

We are very happy that the spell- binding images we have collected from Cassini are being enjoyed by everyone. And it makes our efforts over the last 15 years all the more worthwhile.

I would like to point out, so that there is no confusion on this matter, that the particular `color’ image you have chosen to display is not the true color of Saturn. CICLOPS, the lab where the images are officially processed for release to the public, has gone to great pains to try to reproduce true color whenever possible on the ciclops.org website. It is not an exact science, but we do the best we can.

Thanks again for expressing your interest and shared wonder at the beauty of Saturn. For many of us, it was our first `cosmic connection’ and only continues to inspire now that Cassini has settled into orbit.

Stay tuned for more….
Carolyn Porco
Cassini Imaging Team Leader

By: Philippec

Philippec — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:47:16 +0000

This is why I come here often. Without The Bad Astronomer, I would never get to see such beauty.

Thank you!!!!

Philippe.