"Summerland" another astronomy blunder.

Flipping through the HD channels today I came across a guy
and a kid with a telescope on the beach in a program called
Summerland, episode name, The Pleiades.

He was talking about the mythology of Orion and the Pleiades
then they showed a picture of M45 in the sky. The guy says its
light shines from reflected starlight on dust in space. So far
so good.

Then the kid looks though the telescope, but wait, its a 4" Newtonian
and its pointing DOWN. They show an astrophoto of M45 and the
kid says "it glows blue, just like a picture".

Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45 but
you see it reflected off the SAND!

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"Jason Ware" wrote in
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He was talking about the mythology of Orion and the Pleiades
then they showed a picture of M45 in the sky. The guy says its
light shines from reflected starlight on dust in space. So far
so good.
snip
Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45
but
you see it reflected off the SAND!

Well sand is kinda like dust ... right? ;-)



Rick Evans
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Jason Ware wrote:

Flipping through the HD channels today...

...Then the kid looks though the telescope, but wait, its a 4" Newtonian
and its pointing DOWN. They show an astrophoto of M45 and the
kid says "it glows blue, just like a picture".

Television!? You were watching television!!?? What did you expect to
find, the Theory of Everything?

Davoud

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Jason Ware wrote:
Wow, what a 4" reflector, not only can you see color in M45 but
you see it reflected off the SAND!

Well, that explains it--it's a *quartz* mirror.

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