[Chaos-l] Earth from Mercury

[Tony Rice]

This is fun, some hints:

* the view from other planets in the solar system is similar in that the
orbital plane of the other planets (including Earth) is still the same so
the other planets appear in their skies roughly along that imaginary line
 That should narrow down the possibilities from 88 to 12.

* dont forget to tilt your head 23.4 degrees when trying to match it up with
what we are used to seeing in the sky

* this constellation rises about midnight these days.

* I'm seeing all but the Gamma and Theta stars in that constellation in that
photo.

Answer is here: http://twitter.com/FrankSummers.  Dr. Summers from the
Hubble program shared this earlier today.


On Mar 23, 2011 6:17 PM, "walter fowler" <walterfowler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I give up. What is the constellation? I have a feeling there are a lot
> more stars in the image than I can see from my house. Of course, I
couldn't
> see the streaks, either. Maybe I should take off my sunglasses. Walter
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Messenger, which entered Mercury orbit last Friday, returned a
>> beautiful photo of Earth and the moon, see if you can pick out the
>> constilation behind them. Also note the streaks, those aren't created
>> by a long exposure, they are cosmic rays hitting Messenger's camera.
>>
>>
>>
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=388
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://bit.ly/fvgctx
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