Some help please.

[Charic]

It will look like that one day prior to its collision with the Milky Way?

Pity we won't be around 

 

[rockystar]

On ‎06‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 04:22, Red Dwarfer said:

I have read a lot of people recommending low power for deep sky objects and that is the advice i`ve followed . But what about the smaller more elusive stuff like the M57 Ring Nebula , what magnification do you find brings out the detail of the outer ring ? 

I tried to find the M31 late one night last week but it was in predawn light so no luck on that front , though Venus wasn`t far behind it so I had a gander at that instead ...

Have a look at this screen cap from twitter a couple of days ago . It shows the M31 if it was much brighter and next to the Moon for scale ... 

That'd be amazing if you could see it like that, but think of all those faint fuzzy hunters complaining about the galaxy being too bright.

[Red Dwarfer]

1 hour ago, rockystar said:

That'd be amazing if you could see it like that

It would be awesome to actually see it all with the naked eye ! 

 

And Saturn if it were as close as the Moon ... 

[Dave In Vermont]

If you find this fascinating, then how about if the Earth had the rings that Saturn does? I failed to note the source - but it is also done to accurate scale. Hope you enjoy these:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucky Saturn!

Dave

[Red Dwarfer]

2 hours ago, Dave In Vermont said:

If the Earth had the rings that Saturn does?

These are pretty mind blowing , especially the first one with the ziggurat ...

If I was Q from Star Trek for the day , I would be tempted to make some changes along these lines .

[rockystar]

9 hours ago, Red Dwarfer said:

It would be awesome to actually see it all with the naked eye ! 

 

And Saturn if it were as close as the Moon ... 

I've seen it naked eye a few times

and a wouldn't put saturn there, it'd have some pretty disastrous consequences - the earth would no longer be a planet, you'd never get it all in the eyepiece, and imagine the complaints during a "full saturn"