Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?

Would any of the planned imaging views include enough sky
to spot Saturn?

My guess is 'no', that it would be a
waste of bandwidth to even bother to try
for such a picture -- but all the same,
what's the view like?

Thanks,

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com

"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?

Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it were
above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick haze
high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!

--
Go Huygens, go!

Thanks!




"Ugo" wrote in message
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?

Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it were
above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick haze
high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!

--
Go Huygens, go!

Ugo schrieb:
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?


Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it were
above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick haze
high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!

--
Go Huygens, go!


Jim has been mislead by all these beautiful PR-illustrations... :-D

Misled but only temporarilly -- my instincts made me ask for certain.


"Harald Kucharek" wrote in message
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Ugo schrieb:
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?


Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it
were
above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick
haze
high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!

--
Go Huygens, go!


Jim has been mislead by all these beautiful PR-illustrations... :-D

Jim Oberg wrote:

Misled but only temporarilly -- my instincts made me ask for certain.




It's too bad; that would have been the space picture to end all space
pictures.
Still, I'm looking forward to some great photos later today.

Pat

well now hold on - Saturn's glow would definately be a site worth
seeing, even through muck. As close as it is to Titan the glow
would be ill defined but present. As to what definition it would have,
Im not sure but it might be more than you would suspect. imho





Jim Oberg wrote:

Misled but only temporarilly -- my instincts made me ask for certain.

"Harald Kucharek" wrote in message
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Ugo schrieb:
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?

Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?


Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it
were
above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick
haze
high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!

--
Go Huygens, go!


Jim has been mislead by all these beautiful PR-illustrations... :-D

"muldar"
- Saturn's glow would definately (sp)

definitely.... I would ignore it except that you use the word in almost
every post sort of like definition and not defination if that helps.
definitely.

Harald Kucharek ) wrote:
: Ugo schrieb:
: "Jim Oberg" wrote in message
: ...
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: Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site?
:
: Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site,
: how high above the horizon is saturn in the sky?
:
:
: Saturn is well below horizon at the Huygens landing site. Even if it were
: above the horizon, it would still be invisible due to the same thick haze
: high in the atmosphere that prevents us from seeing Titan's surface!
:
: --
: Go Huygens, go!
:
:
: Jim has been mislead by all these beautiful PR-illustrations... :-D

....and Bonestell art, though very good!

"Eric Chomko" wrote in message
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Harald Kucharek ) wrote:

: Jim has been mislead by all these beautiful PR-illustrations... :-D

...and Bonestell art, though very good!

And JPL animations

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Actually this site was not available (HTTP 500 error) at the time I wrote
this - can't think why!