{"id":399,"date":"2008-04-03T02:02:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/04\/03\/saturn_some_dee\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T00:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T00:48:38","slug":"saturn_some_dee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/04\/03\/saturn_some_dee\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn, The Deep Sky and My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday night, my daughter asked if we could bring out the telescope and do some stargazing. Boy was that the kick in the caboose I needed! (As you can see by the M64 sketch I managed later that night.) As I brought the Dob out the front door, I noticed that she had her clipboard, paper and pencil ready: &#8220;I wanna sketch something&#8230;&#8221; she said as I crouched to keep the scope from banging into the door frame.<\/p>\n<p>So awesome!<\/p>\n<p>We started with Saturn, and I suggested that she try to draw the position of the moons so that we could check and see which ones she spotted. She saw Titan right away, and with a little more time, and urging from Dad, she picked up Rhea and Tethys too. After she finished her sketch, I had a look and grabbed a quick sketch myself&#8211;she made sure to complete my drawing with a sketch circle =D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"javascript:myVoid()\" onmouseover=\"rollover('img200803300201')\" onmouseout=\"rollout('img200803300201')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008033002_SaturnA.jpg\" name=\"img200803300201\" alt=\"Step 1\" border=\"1\" color=\"FFFFFF\"><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\n<!--\nsetrollover(\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008033002_SaturnB.jpg\");\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<i>Move mouse over sketch above to view labels.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Next we had a look at M35 and she insisted on trying to sketch it. I let her have a go at it, but she got lost in all the stars so we moved right along for a quick look at Mizar and Alcor, and then on to a couple bright galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>M81 and M82 were nicely placed in the sky, and after discussing what she was seeing, she got busy with the drawing. We didn&#8217;t have any other sketching supplies with us, so she used the pencil eraser to fuzz the galaxies up a bit, and that seemed to do the trick!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"javascript:myVoid()\" onmouseover=\"rollover('img200803300202')\" onmouseout=\"rollout('img200803300202')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008033002_M81M82A.jpg\" name=\"img200803300202\" alt=\"Step 1\" border=\"1\" color=\"FFFFFF\"><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\n<!--\nsetrollover(\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008033002_M81M82B.jpg\");\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><br \/>\n<i>Move mouse over sketch above to view labels.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The air got chillier, and it was a school night, so we went inside and pulled up some photos of the galaxies she had just sketched. By that time, my son joined us, and we oohed &amp; ahhed at some of the great shots Google brought up while discussing what was going on in those distant galaxies. My son was struck by the thought that near-collisions between them is what got M82 all stirred up and crazy looking. &#8211;speaking of &#8216;looking&#8217;&#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to the warmer nights, and doing that together some more as summer approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn, Some Deep Sky and My Daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observing-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":560,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2011\/02\/04\/saturn_-_cmi_32\/","url_meta":{"origin":399,"position":0},"title":"Saturn &#8211; CMI 321\/CMII 194\/CMIII 288 &#8211; JAN 29, 2011 1245 UT","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Sketch of Saturn CMI 321\u00b0 - CMII 194\u00b0 - CMIII 288\u00b0 Click image for larger version. 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