Recent content by scotian280

I am british but I live in Romania near the town of Brasov. I'm right on the south east side of it with nothing but mountains between me and Jupiter that night. Regarding the military, I work for a private military company, spend way too much time in messed up places in the middle east and Africa.

What you indicated is exactly what I was referring to. I looked up at Jupiter when i was going to bed and saw it was not round and that there was a little bit of extra light jutting out from the bottom left of it. Then with Binoculars (and then with confirmation with a star app on my phone) I...

I don't have a tripod yet but I set the camera up on the windowsill so It wouldn't move. When I tried long exposures (about 20 seconds) I ended up with long lines created by the planet because we are spinning too fast.. What is the optimum exposure time to get the most light but before the...

Maybe I'm imagining it then. I'm only using 8x40 binoculars and a camera with 200mm lens.. But that refraction in the window as well as what I was seeing though both optics looked a lot like a phase...

I use "Star Rover" on my iphone. Always gives me good results and confirms things I see (Such as Jupiters moons that were visible with the naked eye 2 nights ago)

Hi all. I'm new here but excited to be mingling with so many intelligent people. I'm British but live in Romania (Near Brasov) and 2 nights ago I was delighted to see some of Jupiters moons with the naked eye. I tried to get some pictures but without the right equipment it was a bit of a...

So what happens when we bring it up to a double slit experiment and the particle becomes a wave, the a particle again? What do the calculations look like for that particle making it though the slits in some form or another and arriving on the other side?

Hi all. I found this forum when searching for the specifics of Mercuries orbit (details of its Tidal Lock). It was so nice to see good intelligent discussion. I've missed this for a while due to various reasons. I hope to meet lots of great people here who can increase my level of knowledge...