Live vid of Cassini fly by of Saturn...

This is what gets me through life stuff like this...Incredible footage...huge sci-fi nut...grew up in the 60's and now look what were doing.........

http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/03/15/saturn-fly-by-video/

Very Cool Mike, I wouldn't have guessed you were a skygazer, 

Thanks for the link.

 

  That was cool.  And I am a "Skygazer" 

20" #1141 (Obsession, truss tube Dob.) 10" meade LX200, 5" Orion ST120, Orion ST80 (Used for big camera lens) 20X80 binoculars.
 

Out of this world Mike! 

 Hippy 

Yes I remember last yr @ redbarn was out on the road waiting for friends to show up...stars were amazing that night.....There's a booth @ the Puyallup Fair that has all the planets on display and the guys start talking bout it all and it blows my mind how LARGE some are...were just a little bity blib in the scheme of things...Carl Sagans "Cosmos" rocks have the set have wore them out...truley incredable!!!

Get a little buzz on and it really becomes freaky...

Lol

 
                   "it blows my mind how LARGE some are...were just a little bity blib in the scheme of things"

  You have no idea how really small we are, or how small our sun is in comparrison to most other stars visable to us in the night time sky.  Truely awe inspiring.
  An example would be, imagine a basketball.  Now take an ordinary pen, and place a period on it anywhare (.) The period will represent the size of our sun, the basketball will represent Betelgeuse (Beatlejuice) in orion, a red giant.  There are stars bigger!