SteveCritten
Distinguished Member
I am not 100% sure I am right, it is mind boggling!
Only with the naked eye. When we look through a telescope you are seeing that light sooner.Wow! I didn't realise that!
I am not 100% sure I am right, it is mind boggling!
Only with the naked eye. When we look through a telescope you are seeing that light sooner.Wow! I didn't realise that!
Ewwww!!But what if you follow through.....
But what if you follow through.....
Oh. So the "following through" comment wasn't about doing a wet fartWell, it's always ideal to have a Gas Giant, than follow thru into Brown Dwarf territory.
Oh. So the "following through" comment wasn't about doing a wet fart
You're really not.Only with the naked eye. When we look through a telescope you are seeing that light sooner.
This is almost word for word the response I was about to make. I was also going to say that through a conventional refraction type telescope the light would also slow down (immeasurably) as the light is bent through the lensesYou're really not.
Total distance from source to eye, is the same whether or not part of that distance is made up of a front lens, hollow tube and eyepiece.
It actually takes (immeasurably) fractionally longer if the telescope used has a reflector, or indeed an electronic imaging device between the hollow tube and viewer's eye.
Same here! Astronomy etc absolutely fascinates me!It is indeed insane!
If I had been good at maths and remotely academic, I'd loved to have done astrophysics or something like that as it fascinates me.
Just to unconfuse anyone trying to take in this comment; the light from the distant object, would be converted by satellite telescope's imaging device into electronic data, which would then be transmitted on electromagnetic signals which themselves travel at the speed of light to a receiver on Earth to be viewed live and stored. So allowing for electronic processing delay, yes about the same time, depending on the relative positions of the object, space telescope and Earth receiver.Even the ones on satellites on the edge of the solar system? .
You would also see yourself as a streak travelling to your new viewing position.Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you flew at twice the speed of light away from the earth for 24 hours, then stopped, got your telescope out and looked back at the earth you could watch yourself yesterday.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you flew at twice the speed of light away from the earth for 24 hours, then stopped, got your telescope out and looked back at the earth you could watch yourself yesterday.
I find astronomy fascinating. Time and space, the numbers are boggling. I struggle to comprehend a lot of it and/or retain the information. I went to a Brian Cox lecture a few years ago and whilst completely absorbed and fascinated at the time - I couldn’t tell you anything about the lecture now
Just to unconfuse anyone trying to take in this comment; the light from the distant object, would be converted by satellite telescope's imaging device into electronic data, which would then be transmitted on electromagnetic signals which themselves travel at the speed of light to a receiver on Earth to be viewed live and stored. So allowing for electronic processing delay, yes about the same time, depending on the relative positions of the object, space telescope and Earth receiver.
I find astronomy fascinating. Time and space, the numbers are boggling. I struggle to comprehend a lot of it and/or retain the information. I went to a Brian Cox lecture a few years ago and whilst completely absorbed and fascinated at the time - I couldn’t tell you anything about the lecture now