Re: VMs: RE: Re: Kircher's Moon

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've had Robert Temple's book "Crystal Sun" suggested to me recently
> (though I thankfully managed to avoid actually having to read it): I'm
told
> that the author reports having found some 250 rock crystal lenses (from
> Ancient Egypt), which might or might not be connected with some (ancient,
> lost, predicted) telescope and an (alleged) ability to resolve Jupiter's
> red spot. (I'm happy to let the astronomers here debate the magnification
> needed to resolve that vs Saturn's rings.) :-)

Just as a point of information:  Saturn's rings can be seen in a good
pair of binoculars at 7x (along with Titan). You can also see one of
Jupiter's
dark bands, and the four Galilean satellites.  I've never seen Jupiter's
Red Spot in my 2.5 inch refractor at ~120x.

This might be the place to note the theory that the 'galaxy' in the VMs
is Andromeda has the problem that the galaxy in question is nearly
edge-on to us.

Robert

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