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Originally posted by jamesder
it's not a perfect cylinder, it's a blur...you can see through it where the blur starts.
Originally posted by casu10
...In one article, the author tells about a NASA image ( P-23876C ), but I can't find it in Nasa site....
Originally posted by SevenThunders
Originally posted by jamesder
it's not a perfect cylinder, it's a blur...you can see through it where the blur starts.
Actually the blur makes it more intriguing. Evidently the object was moving relative to the camera. Moreover it was moving quite a bit faster than the other smaller objects that you can see blurred in front of Saturn. Moreover it is not entirely clear whether some of the lights we see 'through' the object are not in fact in front of the object. (As there are clearly bright objects in front of Saturn that are not stars.) If you are saying that the entire cylinder is actually a blur, then this object is moving much faster than any other nearby object. However the entire object is not a blur because in the center it is opaque.
Originally posted by johnlear
I have emailed Norm Bergrum this evening and asked permission to post the real picture of one of the ships in the rings (there are 3 ships). The photo is from Voyager and not Cassini.
I have asked permission to post Plate 5: Ellflux from along the length of the slender body, exhausting at both ends, generates the A-ring. That ship is 31,496 miles in length and 2,422 miles in diameter. The photo is on page 17 of the Ringmakers of Saturn by Norman R. Bergrun available from his website. I will also be making a CD of the Ringmakers of Saturn.
The picture shows the B-ring, the Cassini division, and the A-ring and where the ships is situated at the end of the A-ring.
Although I have not read the text of the French article it is probably a lot from Bergruns book. The Cassini photo, of course, was fictitious, but the real ships are not.
I expect to hear from Norm by the morning and will post the Voyager photo then.
Originally posted by Indellkoffer
I'm pretty sure that the original photo at the front of the thread is the moon, Titan.
Originally posted by thedigirati
Have any of you ever read Arthur C. Clarkes's "Rendezvous with Rama"?
Originally posted by jamesder
my point was that it's not a cylinder. if it's anything, it's circular or half of a circle. it is not a cylinder. that's the illusion of the long exposure