yajvan
11 February 2008, 07:47 PM
Hari Om
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Namaste,
For those that look up...
Take a grain of sand¹. Hold it at arms length from your eyes. This is the same size 'window' that Hubble aimed at; The most barren, remote, unexciting part of the sky.
The Hubble Space Telescope then took long exposures of that exact coordinate for a ten day period ( Keeping the aperature open to gather as much light as possible).
With the grain of sand diameter 300 galaxies were visible. With a window of dime's diameter at 75 feet away (.0162 inches or 0.16 cm) 1,500 galaxies were detected. Here is what the 'scope' viewed:
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1996/01/images/a/formats/web.jpg
I look on this with awe on how grand & creative this Brahman chooses to be.
Pranams
1. One scientist used the grain of sand as a compare; another used a dime's diameter at 75 feet as the size of the viewing angle or .0162 inches , 0.16 cm.
~~~~~
Namaste,
For those that look up...
Take a grain of sand¹. Hold it at arms length from your eyes. This is the same size 'window' that Hubble aimed at; The most barren, remote, unexciting part of the sky.
The Hubble Space Telescope then took long exposures of that exact coordinate for a ten day period ( Keeping the aperature open to gather as much light as possible).
With the grain of sand diameter 300 galaxies were visible. With a window of dime's diameter at 75 feet away (.0162 inches or 0.16 cm) 1,500 galaxies were detected. Here is what the 'scope' viewed:
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1996/01/images/a/formats/web.jpg
I look on this with awe on how grand & creative this Brahman chooses to be.
Pranams
1. One scientist used the grain of sand as a compare; another used a dime's diameter at 75 feet as the size of the viewing angle or .0162 inches , 0.16 cm.