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Investigating Saturn: Insights from Margie's Students and Yerkes Observatory Collaboration

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On February 22-23, 2008, students from Margie's class collaborated with Yerkes Observatory to investigate Saturn using the 24-inch reflecting telescope and the 40-inch refractor dome. The session included hands-on activities such as identifying Saturn's moons: Titan, Dione, Rhea, and Tethys, and exploring image processing techniques with the Makali’i software. Students learned about "seeing" conditions that affect observational quality, and participants engaged in active discussions about their findings, enhancing their understanding of this gas giant and its satellites.

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Investigating Saturn: Insights from Margie's Students and Yerkes Observatory Collaboration

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  1. Seeing Saturn ARCS @ Yerkes Observatory Friday, February 22, 2008 22:42 Central Standard Time Saturday, February 23, 2008 04:42 Universal Time Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  2. Yerkes Observatory 24 inch reflector dome 40 inch refractor dome Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/

  3. Yerkes 40 inch refractor Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/

  4. Yerkes Observatory24 inch reflecting telescope Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/

  5. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  6. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  7. Screen Capture from Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/ Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  8. M Corp’s Guess……. Titan Dione Rhea Tethys Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  9. Student Predictions - Board Work Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  10. Saturn on other nights • You can find more sets of images of Saturn and other objects at http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/observing/yerkes24/2008images/ • Can you identify the moons in this image? Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  11. Try Subaru Image Processor Makali’i • Download Makali’i (means Pleiades in Hawaiian) from http://makalii.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.html.en • Remember to register your software. • Then open up a set of Saturn images. • Set up the contrast so you can see the moons. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  12. Auto Contrast Setup Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  13. Blink to watch the ‘seeing’ change the quality of the images. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  14. Sometimes it looks like a moon is double! ‘Poor seeing’ creates kind of a double exposure. Seeing: Different temperatures and densities of bubbles or layers of air in the atmosphere refract the light first this way, then that way. Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

  15. Hubble SpaceTelescope is above the Earth’s atmosphere... No worries about ‘seeing’ conditions out in space! http://heritage.stsci.edu/1998/29/index.html Saturn investigations: Margie's students and Yerkes Collaboration

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