Does Saturn tilt during its orbit for 3d viewing of its rings? or is it a seasonal view of slanted ring view?
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Saturn's rings are always inclined about 30 degrees; the planet's tilt does not change, at least not on any human timescale.  When we see different parts of the ring, as you've surmised, it is a seasonal effect, as the illumination changes over the orbit.  \n\nWhen the rings are edge-on, think of it as being Saturn's equivalent of spring or fall; when they're at full tilt, think of it as summer or winter (depending on the hemisphere).
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the tilt of the earth and when it revolves around the sun
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First, all planets in our solar system are tilted, although Mercury isn't tilted much.  And yes, this is what causes seasons.\n\nWe can observe seasonal changes (growing and shrinking of polar ice caps and the dust storms they seem to induce) on Mars.  I believe Neptune also has very strange seasons that we don't know much about.\n\nOn a bigger, gaseous planet like Jupiter though, although it tilts we wont see much in the way of seasons because it's atmosphere is affected by many other things that make it turbulent as is.\n\nIn the case of Venus, it has such a wild greenhouse effect (and might be close to being perfectly upside down, I can't recall) that I don't think we will see much in the way of seasons there either.
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No.  But we see only the side that faces earth.\n\nHere's a good diagram that explains it better than I can...\n\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/moon2.html
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You did meant to say "months" twice, right?  Because moths and months are slightly different things.\n\nAnyway, the difference is caused by how close the earth is to the sun (during its orbit around the sun.)  When the earth spins each day, it turns from day to night because the earth is facing the sun for half of the turn (roughly) and facing away for the other half (causing day and night.)  But depending on the orbit, the sun hits the earth differently.\n\nThe sun in fall and winter is more direct, I mean, like it hits you in the face.  It's, um, slanted differently.  But the light is weaker since the part of the earth that's having cold weather is tilted further from the sun.  Did I mention that the earth is tilted?  So that way, one hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun during one side of the orbit, and the other hemisphere gets the seasons during the opposite time of year (other side of the orbit.)  \n\nOK, like imagine that this percent mark % represents the northern and southern hemispheres.  Imagine that the % mark is traveling in a circle around a central sphere.  So on one side of the circle, the upper 0 is tilted toward the sun (spring and summer) and the lower 0 is on the other side of the tilted line and it's further from the sun.  But when the % gets to the other side of the circle, the *upper* 0 is on the far side of the tilted line and then the *lower* 0 is closer to the sun.  Which gives you seasons.\n\nI guess it gets lighter and darker faster because there's less clouds in fall and winter (it's colder, so there's less smog and haze and cloud cover in general) so dawn and dusk seem to happen faster.  Plus, there's less light and heat in general.  \n\nI hope that made sense.  The % thing makes sense to me, but if it doesn't, then make yourself a 3D model and see if it makes sense.
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At 7pm in the evening, set your telescope about 75 degrees ENE, Saturn will be about 20 to 25 degrees above horizon at that time.  It will set at 6 o'clock in the morning in the 200 degrees or WNW direction.\n\nNote: This will change slightly every day.  The above information is for recent days.
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Earth's orbiting around the sun & Earth's 23.5 degree tilt of axis.\n\nOn earth's orbit around the sun, there are 4 points of position that we refer to as either equinoxes(2) or solstices(2).\n\nTo begin with, a solstice is the time when on Earth the sun is either at it's lowest (winter) or highest (summer) point in the sky. An equinox is when all places on the planet experiences equal amounts of light & darkness.\n\nFor the Northern Hemisphere:\n\nWhen the Northern axis is tilted toward the sun we are experiencing the summer solstice. On that day we have the greatest amount of sunlight.\n\nNext stop is the Autumnal equinox. About 1/4 of the way in our orbit around the sun, the Earth's axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. All places on earth experience the same amount of daylight/night hours.\n\nAgain, 1/2 the way in it's orbit, the Earth's northern axis is tilted away from the sun so that we get the least amount of daylight hours on this particular day.\n\nAs we move on still, 3/4 of the way around the sun, we experience another equinox. This is the Vernal or Spring equinox. Again, the northern axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun. Equal daylight/night hours occur.\n\nAs for the Southern Hemisphere: they have the opposite seasons for the very same reasons as above. It is really cool that while we are celebrating Christmas during the winter monthes that the Southern Hemisphere's Dec. 25 is during the SUMMER!\n\nDebunking some common myths (pet peeves of mine):\n\n**Myth 1**The seasons are NOT caused by the distance of Earth from the Sun. In all actuality, the earth is closest in it's orbit to the sun during the winter monthes.\n\n**Myth 2**The earth's axis DOES NOT turn as it goes around the sun! The earth turns on it's axis & the earth revolves around the sun. This combination causes us to be tilted toward or away from the sun!\n\n**Myth 3**An egg will NOT stand on end during an equinox! All eggs have differences in their surfaces which may allow any to be stood on end if you tried it long enough!
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Can you imagine living on Saturn with its rings and two moons. What a sight to behold. Here on the west coast at this time , it began to show itself at 1:49 am, rising from east to west. I am an avid star gazer and I love showing the ringed planet to all the children in the neighborhood. Big and small...large and tall, its a real treat to watch through my109mmscope.
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Saturn's temperature ranges from -139 C at the cloudtops to 11,700 C at the core.  So the answer is yes, depending on where you are.
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The moon spins about an axis. The axis is almost perpendicular to the plane of the moons orbit around the earth. The period of spin (time to complete one rotation about the spin axis) is equal to the period of one revolution around the earth.\n\nThe result is we see one side of the moon.\n\nFor many people this answer is not suffice to understand.\nImagine a cubical building in a plain ground. The four vertical walls are marked A,B,C,D. Imagine the building to be the moon and we are standing infront of the wall marked A. Let us go round the building to see the other walls in the order of ABCD. When we have finished quarter round we can have the full view of the wall B. But imagine that the building rotates itself such that when we finished quarter round it also has rotated quarter round about itself. We will see only the wall A. If the things continue like this we can never see the other walls.When we complete one round the building completes one round so always we see only the wall A.\nDue to librations actually we can see 59% of the moon instead of 50%
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Saturn: The planet Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture and the harvest. Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system (Jupiter is the largest). The planet Saturn is less dense than water - it will float on water. \nFacts:\n\nDiameter: 120,536 km, 9.4 Earth diameters \n\nAverage Distance from Sun: 1.427 billion km, 9.53 AU (astronomical units) \n\nLength of Day: 10 hours 40 minutes \n\nLength of Year: 29.46 Earth Years \n\nNumber of natural satellites: 30 \n\nPlanetary ring system: Yes \n\nAverage temperature: ~134 K (-139 C) Atmospheric composition: Mostly hydrogen and helium. \n\nEccentricity of orbit 0.053\n\nInclination of equator to orbit 26.73°\n\nInclination of orbit to ecliptic 2.48 ° \nGalileo was the first to see Saturn in 1610 through a telescope. 1655- Christian Huygens (Dutch) used a better telescope and suggested that it was surrounded by a thin-flattened ring. Edge on almost impossible to see. Later on discovered that the rings were really system of rings. 1675 Domenico Cassini discovered a dark division in the rings. The Cassini division is a gap about 4500 km wide that separates the outer A ring from the brighter B ring. 1838- Johann Franz Encke discovered a 270 km wide division in the outer A ring\n\nA, B, & C rings are not uniform but consist of hundred upon hundred of closely space bands or ringlets. This is a picture of the F-ring about 100 km wide. Narrowness is due to the gravitational forces exerted by 2 small satellites\n \n\nRings\n\n \n\nThe storm is the white arrowhead shape in the middle of Saturn - pointing to the right. The diameter of this storm is about the diameter of the Earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe beautiful blue in the photograph is caused by the multiple pictures that have been combined. Blue is not the natural color of Saturn. White in the clouds are white ammonia ice crystals.\nSaturn’s Moons\n1 planet sized satellites\n6 moderate sized satellites\n? tiny satellites\n\nTitan\nA dark cloud band is visible near Titan's north pole, the equator has a wide band of clouds as well. Titan is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto. The thick haze/atmosphere of Titan. Picture was taken by Voyager 1 in 1980. Titan is the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere. Titan's atmosphere might even be thicker than the atmosphere of Earth. It consists mainly of nitrogen. \n \n\nTethys: The area on the right hand side of this photo is heavily cratered and brighter/whiter than the rest of Tethys as seen on the left hand side. Tethys has much more craters at the upper half of this picture than at the lower half. The craters at the bottom half were flooded with volcanic lava, making that half smoother. The smallest object you can see on this photograph is about 5 kilometers across.\n\n Tethys\n\n\nRhea: Icy crust. 1600 km in diameter. Along with Iapetus are the largest and most distant from Saturn.\n\n Rhea\n\nMimas: Photograph by Voyager 1 in 1980. Covered with impact craters of all sizes. The largest impact crater on this picture is more than 100 kilometers in diameter. It has a high central peak. \n\n\n Mima\n\nPhoebas: The bright spot in the picture on the left is a mountain. The two bright spots in the photograph on the right are mountain ridges. \n\n\n\n\nJupiter\n\n\nStats\n\nDistance from Sun- 5.203 AU (4.95-5.45AU)\n\nEccentricity of orbit 0.048\n\nOrbital period- 11.86 years\n\nRotational period- equatorial 9 hours 50 min - internal 9 hours 55 min\n\nInclination of equator to orbit 3.12°\n\nInclination of orbit to ecliptic 1.30 °\n\nDiameter 142,984 Km = 11.209 Earth diameters\n\nMass- 1.899 x 1027 = 317.8 Earths\n\nSurface gravity- 2.36\n\nAlbedo- 0.44\n\nAverage temperature -180 °C= -162 °F=165 k\n\nComposition: Largest object in the solar system. Made mostly of lightweight gases. \n\nOpposition: Where and when the best times to see a superior planet. When the planet is on the same side of the sun as Earth. Jupiter is 3x brighter than the brightest st
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The answer to your question is found in one fact: the earth's axis is inclined. If you imagine the earth's revolution about the sun as occuring on a huge flat disk, with the sun at the center of the disk and the earth at the rim, the axis is not perpendicular to the disk, but inclined from the perpendicular. The northern end of the axis, which sticks out of the earth at the north pole, always points to the same place in the sky as the earth goes about the sun. (Of course, the southern end of the axis always points to its own place in the sky, also.)\n\nYou can see from this that some of the time the northern end of the axis is tilted away from the sun (at the times that the southern end is tilted toward the sun) and some of the time the northern end of the axis is tilted toward the sun (when the southern end is tilted away). The northern end is most tilted away, and the southern end most tilted toward, on December 21. The northern end is most tilted toward the sun, and the southern end most tilted away, on June 21. That is why winter begins in the northern hemisphere and summer begins in the southern hemisphere on December 21. Summer begins in the northern hemisphere and winter begins in the southern hemisphere on June 21.\n\nAt other times the axis is internediary between most tilted toward and most tilted away.
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The tilt of the Earth's axis causes the number of daylight hours and the intensity of the sunlight to differ throughout the year. For example, our "shortest" day (least amount of sunlight) of the year will be on Dec. 20 or 21st (one of them, I forget). That is the time that the Earth is positioned in it's orbit around the sun such that the tilt of the Earth's axis makes the northern hemisphere tilt away from the sun for the maximum amount of time. This sparks the Winter season . We are getting less and less sunlight up to that point and gradually increase sunlight after that until six months later (June 20 or 21, I forget), we have our "longest" day. This sparks the 'Summer' season.\n\nSo, why isn't Dec. 21 our coldest day? Well, the Earth's surface retains heat from the warmer months. Even though we increase sunlight after Dec. 21, it is not enough to warm the surface until some months later. Likewise, June 21 is not our hottest day because after June 21, we still get enough sunlight to bake the surface and continue to heat the ground. It is not until about the time that the sun crosses the equator that we have Fall and Spring.\n\nIf you shine a flashlight at a tennis ball, you'll notice that about half of the ball gets direct light, but that the center of the ball gets the most. Think of the Earth as the ball and the sun's focal center is constantly moving up or down throughout the year.
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No.  The angle between the sun and the moon as viewed from the earth is 180 degrees for the full moon pahse.  This means that the full moon and the sun are always on opposite sides of the earth.\n\nSince the moon is not always "in plane" with the sun, and your horizon is not perfect, it may be possible on occasion, depending on the geography of the horizon, and one's latitute to see the full moon rising as the sun is setting, or to see the full moon setting as the sun is rising.
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The Earth is tilted at an angle of about twenty three and a half degrees.  This is the reason why North and Magnetic poles are not at the same place.  \n\nAnyway, in the Northern winter, the North Pole is angled away from the Sun, with the South Pole therefore being angled towards the Sun.  The result is 24 hours night in the north, 24 hours day light in the south.  This is the southern summer.\nNow remember that the Earth maintains this angle throughout its orbit.\nSix months later, the Earth is on the other side of its orbit around the Sun.  Still maintaining the same tilt, now the North Pole is receiving 24 hour day light, and the South Pole is in darkness.  Northern summer, southern winter.\n\nThe Arctic and Antarctic circles mark the limit of this 24 hour daylight, and the Tropic of Cancer (North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (South) mark the limits of the maximum travel of the Sun at it appears in the northern and southern skies.\n\nAt the Spring and Autumn exquinox, the Earth is such that the Poles are receiving equal amounts of sunlight.  Equinox means "equal night".  \n\nI down know any particular websites but try the NOAA and BBC weather sites.\n\nADDITION: To Glenn Blaylock.  Thank you very much for the correction.  I'll read up on my error.
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Check this one\nhttp://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html
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We'll be watching at my school if it's not cloudy (the weather doesn't look good for the northeast US).  We don't have anything fancy, just an 8" Schmidt-Cass with a solar filter.  If we do get clouded/rained out, then we'll be watching a webcast, projected on the planetarium dome.